Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a control unit for avoiding condensation of humidity in an intake system of an internal combustion engine after engine switch off. Condensed liquid in the intake system of the stopped engine can lead to icing, corrosion and a hydrostatic lock at the next engine start. To prevent such an engine damage, it is necessary to determine if and in which amount condensed liquid occurs in the cooled intake system and to initiate appropriate actions to eliminate the liquid therefrom. The present invention predicts the occurrence of condensation in the intake system of the cooled engine and initiates corrective measures at engine switch off and during the cooling down period.

Abstract: When a coolant controlled to have a constant target temperature is used regardless of a traveling condition of a vehicle, a fuel efficiency of the vehicle may be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for controlling the start of an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine is equipped with an ignition device comprising a fuel-fed prechamber to ignite an air-fuel mixture in a main combustion chamber. In order to reduce the emissions of the internal combustion engine during engine start a prechamber heating operations is performed by injecting a predetermined amount of fuel into the prechamber and igniting an air-fuel-mixture therein, while the main fuel injector is deactivated during at least a first engine cycle after engine start request.

Abstract: Provided is a hybrid vehicle control device excellent in quietness while suppressing knocking within an allowable limit. The hybrid vehicle control device of an aspect of the invention is a hybrid vehicle control device that controls a hybrid vehicle including a motor that drives wheels, a generator that supplies electric power to the motor, and an engine configured by an internal combustion engine that drives the generator, and includes a control unit that calculates a knock index value indicating a knock degree of the engine at an engine operating point represented by a relationship between an engine rotational speed and an engine torque, and controls the engine rotational speed and the engine torque based on the knock index value. As the knock index value decreases, the control unit sets the target engine rotation speed to be lower and the target engine torque to be higher in the target power generation amount.

Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of maintaining an activation temperature of a catalyst while suppressing deterioration of an exhaust gas in a hybrid engine. To this end, the internal combustion engine control device of the present invention controls an internal combustion engine in an engine for a hybrid vehicle. The internal combustion engine has a catalyst that purifies the harmful substances in the exhaust gas and a catalyst temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the catalyst. Then, when the temperature of the catalyst detected by the catalyst temperature detection unit does not reach a predetermined temperature, the internal combustion engine control device performs a catalyst temperature rise control for increasing the temperature of the catalyst and performs motoring.

Abstract: A shot variation in injection quantity of a fuel injection device is reduced. A control device according to an aspect of the present invention performs a first current control for a solenoid by a first current waveform by applying a reverse voltage to the solenoid before a mover or a valve collides with a fixed portion, when an injection quantity of a fuel from opening to closing of the valve of the fuel injection device is a set value or more. In addition, the control device performs a second current control for the solenoid by a second current waveform so that a current larger than a holding current holding the mover or the valve in a state of being in contact with the fixed portion flows to the solenoid, until the mover or the valve collides with the fixed portion, when the injection quantity of the fuel from opening to closing of the valve is less than the set value.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, combustion stability is improved while exhaust gas emission is suppressed. For this purpose, a control device (1) for controlling an injector (103) is configured to include a control unit (21) that controls the injector (103) to perform a first fuel injection (1001) for injecting fuel at a first fuel pressure from the injector (103) in an intake stroke (S1) in one combustion cycle of an internal combustion engine (100) and a second fuel injection (1002) for injecting fuel at a second fuel pressure higher than the first fuel pressure from the injector (103) after the first fuel injection (1001) in the same one combustion cycle in the intake stroke (S1).

Abstract: The present subject matter provides a device and a method for injecting non-combustible fluid into an internal combustion. In order to reduce the non-combustible fluid consumption, the fluid to be injected is heated to a predefined temperature which improves the spray characteristics, reduces wall wetting and leads to a better vaporization of the fluid in the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device of an injector capable of suppressing the influence of pressure reduction boiling even if pressure in a combustion chamber is low. In a case where the temperature of fuel injected from a fuel injection valve is within a set high temperature region and the pressure of the combustion chamber is within a set low pressure region, the control device of an in-cylinder direct injection-type injector according to the present invention controls to increase a lift amount of the injector as compared to the case of a low temperature region or a high pressure region.

Abstract: Emission of unburned hydrocarbons and soot is reduced while ensuring startability (ignitability) in a cold start mode of an internal combustion engine. Thus, fuel is injected with a first injection rate as an injection rate of a fuel injection valve 100 in a warm state in which a temperature of an engine 30 is equal to or higher than a set temperature, and the fuel is injected with a second injection rate lower than the first injection rate as the injection rate of the fuel injection valve 100 in a cold state in which the temperature of the engine 30 is lower than the set temperature at the same fuel pressure as that in the warm state.

Abstract: An object is to provide a fuel injection valve that restricts attachment of fuel injected from an injection hole to a combustion chamber. A fuel injection valve including a plurality of injection holes on a front end section, each of the plurality of injection holes including an upstream hole formed on an upstream side and a downstream hole that is connected to the upstream hole, formed on a downstream side of the upstream hole, and has a diameter different from that of the upstream hole. A center axis of a first downstream hole is configured to be eccentric to a center axis side of the fuel injection valve relative to a center axis of a first upstream hole of a first injection hole. An eccentricity amount or an eccentricity direction of a downstream hole relative to an upstream hole of at least one of the other injection holes is different from an eccentricity amount or an eccentricity direction of the first injection hole.

Abstract: Provided is a novel internal-combustion engine control device that can accurately determine a combustion state of an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber even in a case where operation is switched between a steady operation state and a transient operation state. For this purpose, the internal-combustion engine control device includes a physical quantity detection unit that detects a physical quantity that fluctuates output of the internal-combustion engine, an output fluctuation value calculation unit that calculates an output fluctuation value for each cylinder based on a detection result of the physical quantity detection unit, and a state determination unit that determines a transient operation state or a steady operation state based on a difference or a ratio between a first output fluctuation value of a predetermined first cylinder and a second output fluctuation value of a predetermined second cylinder calculated by the output fluctuation value calculation unit.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection device and a control unit therefor which enable reliable ignition even in a case where fuel pressure is low immediately after starting an engine. In the control unit for controlling an injector injecting fuel into an internal combustion engine, a plurality of injectors is provided in the internal combustion engine, a static flow rate of a first injector is configured to be smaller than a static flow rate of a second injector. In a case where a fuel pressure of fuel supplied by a pressurizing unit is lower than a set value set lower than a fuel pressure in warming up, an injection ratio of the first injector is controlled to increase according to a difference between a fuel pressure of fuel from the pressurizing unit and a fuel pressure in warming up.

Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.

Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. A control device 150 of a fuel injection device 101 includes a valve 214, a coil 205 which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable member 202 which drives the valve 214, and a voltage source. The fuel injection device 101 applies a voltage to the coil 205 on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil 205 until the current becomes a maximum current to attract the movable member 202, and drives the valve 214 to inject fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil 205 or a voltage of the voltage source is detected before the injection pulse is stopped. In a case where the detected drive current or the voltage is equal to or less than a setting, a width of the injection pulse or an injection pulse different from the injection pulse is corrected to be long.

Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of estimating a compression ratio of the internal combustion engine at the time of fuel cut of the internal combustion engine and without being affected by an intake air amount and an intake air temperature. A compression ratio ? is calculated on the basis of a change of in-cylinder pressure P with respect to crank angle ? at timing when an in-cylinder volume change rate dV/d?/V takes an extreme value or at timing from closing of an intake valve 109 to the start of ignition of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking assist device for a vehicle such that the vehicle can be parked without decreasing or excessively increasing the speed or causing the vehicle to stop during assisted parking, the speed of the host vehicle is kept constant even immediately after an obstacle or a bump is cleared, and the vehicle is prevented from colliding with any other parked vehicle. The device calculates a speed command value and/or an engine torque command value in consideration of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and controls the speed of the vehicle on the basis of the calculated speed command value and/or the engine torque command value, said acceleration/deceleration being predicted in advance on the basis of the height and distance of an obstacle and/or a bump that is present in a parking path, the gradient of the road surface, and the steering angle.

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: Combustion stability can be improved while HC and PN discharged from a combustion chamber are prevented. In an ECU that controls a fuel injection device installed in a combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine so as to be able to inject fuel in a direction intersecting with a sliding direction of a piston, a pressure value of the fuel supplied to the fuel injection device is acquired, control is performed such that the fuel injection device injects the fuel at least twice in a compression stroke, and control is performed such that fuel injection timing of at least one time in the compression stroke is advanced earlier than fuel injection timing of a time corresponding to the high pressure value of the fuel when the acquired fuel pressure value is low.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device of an injector capable of suppressing the influence of pressure reduction boiling even if pressure in a combustion chamber is low. In a case where the temperature of fuel injected from a fuel injection valve is within a set high temperature region and the pressure of the combustion chamber is within a set low pressure region, the control device of an in-cylinder direct injection-type injector according to the present invention controls to increase a lift amount of the injector as compared to the case of a low temperature region or a high pressure region.