Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an engine system control device capable of stabilizing a combustion state, while improving fuel economy by performing intake air heating. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine system control device which controls an engine system including an engine configured to combust air-fuel mixture, an intake air path configured to take air to the engine, and an intake air heating mechanism configured to heat the intake air, wherein a heating amount of the intake air is controlled depending on a combustion speed of the air-fuel mixture.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device is provided. The internal combustion engine control device is provided with a generator that is driven by exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control device is capable of increasing the power generation of the generator. The internal combustion engine control device includes an exhaust amount control unit. The exhaust amount control unit increases the amount of the exhaust gas supplied to the generator in a coasting state.

Abstract: Fuel injection control of an internal combustion engine requires an optimized fuel amount that can be burned completely with oxygen in intake air to be supplied, but the oxygen concentration in the atmospheric air is affected by humidity. By separately calculating a dry air flow rate that directly affects the oxygen amount and a humidity flow rate that is a change factor of the oxygen concentration in the intake air of the internal combustion engine, the fuel can be supplied to the cylinder of the internal combustion engine at an optimized air-fuel ratio. In addition, highly precise control involving EGR for flowback of a part of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust pipe to the intake pipe can also be achieved.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel injector that is capable of reducing penetration. The fuel injector of the present invention includes a valve body having a valve body side seat surface, a valve seat side seat surface that abuts on the valve body side seat surface, and an injection hole that is provided downstream of a position at which the valve body side seat surface abuts on the valve seat side seat surface. The valve body has a projection that is formed from the valve body side seat surface toward the injection hole, and the projection is formed to be smaller in a direction of fuel flow between seats than a radius of an upstream opening surface of the injection hole.

Abstract: Because an in-cylinder temperature becomes low immediately after cold starting, it is impossible to take large ignition timing retard to avoid combustion instability and it takes time to activate a catalyst existing downstream of an internal combustion engine. The present invention provides an internal combustion engine control apparatus including an ignition timing control unit to control an ignition timing of an ignition device attached to an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes an in-cylinder temperature raising unit that raises an in-cylinder temperature, the in-cylinder temperature is raised by the in-cylinder temperature raising unit, and a retard amount of the ignition timing of the ignition device is increased by the ignition timing control unit.

Abstract: In some examples, a system including one or more processors may receive sensor data from one or more sensors indicating one or more engine parameters of an engine including a combustion chamber. Based on the sensor data, the system may determine a homogeneity index indicative of a homogeneity of an air-fuel mixture within the combustion chamber. Furthermore, the system may determine an estimated amount of NOx in the exhaust gas based at least in part on the homogeneity index. In addition, based at least partially on the estimated amount of NOx in the exhaust gas, the system may send an instruction to control an engine component.

Abstract: An object is to provide a control device that calculates an intake pipe pressure of an engine, in which the humidity of air is measured, and a change in a gas constant due to a change in the total number of moles of air is corrected, to improve the accuracy of the calculation value of the intake pipe pressure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification system which exhibits high exhaust gas purification performance. The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification system including: a carrier containing aluminum oxide; an exhaust gas purification device including a catalyst provided on the carrier and containing gallium, and connected to an internal combustion engine; and a system connected to the exhaust gas purification device for increasing an oxygen concentration. The system for increasing an oxygen concentration provides an oxygen concentration higher than that of a post combusted gas of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of appropriately controlling compression ratio and ignition timing before the target compression ratio that is set according to humidity is attained.

Abstract: An EGR rate estimation method using an EGR valve opening area involves aggravated EGR rate estimation accuracy as an EGR valve is deteriorated and is unable to satisfy required accuracy when a target EGR rate is high. With a method for correcting a fuel injection amount by a fuel injection valve through estimation of a purge air-fuel ratio on the basis of variations in an air-fuel ratio variable depending on whether purging is performed, the fuel injection correction fails to accommodate the change in the air-fuel ratio when concentration of fuel evaporative emissions adsorbed by an activated carbon of a canister is high, resulting in reduced conversion efficiency of a catalyst. An arrangement includes an introduction port that is disposed in an intake pipe and through which a gas other than fresh air flows in the intake pipe and humidity sensors disposed upstream and downstream, respectively, of the introduction port.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to predict change of a combustion limit due to cycle variation of temperature and an EGR ratio and perform correction every cycle to decrease an amount of combustion consumption. Therefore, in an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and an exhaust pipe, the internal combustion engine control device includes a control unit configured to perform EGR control of controlling an exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe to return to an inner cylinder of the cylinder, obtain temperature of the gas in the internal cylinder and an EGR ratio in a state where both an intake valve and an exhaust valve are closed in an combustion cycle, and correct a combustion parameter in a same combustion cycle as the combustion cycle on the basis of the obtained gas temperature and the obtained EGR ratio.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to form a highly homogeneous air-fuel mixture which is not influenced by an engine rotation speed. Therefore, the invention provides a fuel injection control device including a cylinder, a first injector disposed at an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and a center portion thereof in the radial direction, an intake valve disposed at an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and an outer portion thereof in the radial direction in relation to the first fuel injection device, and a second injector supplying fuel from an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and at least an outer portion in the radial direction in relation to the intake valve, in which a rotation speed of the engine is high, a fuel supply amount ratio of the first injector with respect to the second injector is controlled to be larger than that of a case where the rotation speed is low.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device equipped with air cylinders and an EGR mechanism that returns exhaust gas emitted from the air cylinders to the intake side of the air cylinders is provided. The internal combustion engine control device includes an EGR control unit that controls the EGR flow volume of the EGR mechanism, and a humidity detection unit that directly or indirectly detects the humidity of outside air supplied to the air cylinders. The EGR control unit calculates the moisture amount in the outside air and the moisture amount in the recirculated exhaust gas, and controls the EGR mechanism on the basis of: a stable combustion limit air cylinder mass, which is set in accordance with the combustion state in the air cylinders; the mass of the air introduced into the air cylinders; the mass of the fuel; and the moisture amounts.

Abstract: Because an in-cylinder temperature becomes low immediately after cold starting, it is impossible to take large ignition timing retard to avoid combustion instability and it takes time to activate a catalyst existing downstream of an internal combustion engine. The present invention provides an internal combustion engine control apparatus including an ignition timing control unit to control an ignition timing of an ignition device attached to an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes an in-cylinder temperature raising unit that raises an in-cylinder temperature, the in-cylinder temperature is raised by the in-cylinder temperature raising unit, and a retard amount of the ignition timing of the ignition device is increased by the ignition timing control unit.

Abstract: The invention provides an internal combustion engine control device capable of performing a stable combustion at a lean combustion limit. In an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine provided with an ignition device igniting an air-fuel mixture formed inside a combustion chamber, an intake side air temperature of the internal combustion engine is controlled in response to a compression ratio of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve capable of forming a homogeneous air-fuel mixture in homogeneous combustion at a low engine speed and a control device thereof are provided. According to the present invention, a fluid injection valve that is configured separately from a fuel injection valve and has a function of injecting a fluid is provided and a control device of the fuel injection valve includes a control unit that performs control such that fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve and then controls the fluid injection valve such that the fluid is injected from the fluid injection valve and the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve is stirred.

Abstract: Fuel injection control of an internal combustion engine requires an optimized fuel amount that can be burned completely with oxygen in intake air to be supplied, but the oxygen concentration in the atmospheric air is affected by humidity. By separately calculating a dry air flow rate that directly affects the oxygen amount and a humidity flow rate that is a change factor of the oxygen concentration in the intake air of the internal combustion engine, the fuel can be supplied to the cylinder of the internal combustion engine at an optimized air-fuel ratio. In addition, highly precise control involving EGR for flowback of a part of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust pipe to the intake pipe can also be achieved.

Abstract: In a vehicle control device for stopping an internal combustion engine when a vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or higher and a stop condition of the internal combustion engine is satisfied, fuel is injected to the engine even when the stop condition is satisfied, when an EGR rate of the internal combustion engine is equal to or higher than a set value. Alternatively, when the EGR rate is equal to or higher than the set value, an EGR valve attached to an EGR pipe of the engine is controlled in a valve closing direction when the stop condition is satisfied. Alternatively, when the EGR rate is equal to or higher than the set value, clutch engagement is maintained for a clutch control device that disconnects torque transmission between an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and a vehicle drive shaft, even when the stop condition is satisfied.

Abstract: To provide an internal combustion engine control device provided with a generator driven by an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine and capable of increasing the power generation opportunity of the generator. The internal combustion engine control device according to the present invention is provided with the generator driven by the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, and includes an exhaust amount control unit which increases the amount of the exhaust gas supplied to the generator in a coasting state.