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: 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.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a coast-stop control device that makes it possible to change gears to an appropriate gear change while traveling, before the engine is stopped. The present invention is a coast-stop control device for performing coast-stop control that automatically stops an engine while the vehicle is traveling, the coast-stop control device being characterized: in being provided with an engine stop condition-assessing means for assessing whether it is possible to stop the engine and a gear change control means for controlling the gear change ratio of a gear change mechanism; and in controlling the gear change mechanism to a prescribed gear change ratio when the engine stop condition-assessing means determines that an engine stop condition has been met.

Abstract: An engine control device capable of reducing or eliminating dew condensation in an exhaust return pipe and the like is provided. A control device according to the present invention controls an engine including an exhaust gas return mechanism that returns exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe to an intake pipe, and having a compressor in the intake pipe. The control device controls the exhaust gas return mechanism based on a pressure and on a humidity in the intake pipe.

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: 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: A fuel injection control apparatus for fuel injection at optimum timing in correspondence with level of gas flow velocity in an intake port upon intake stroke injection. A fuel injection valve is controlled so as to set a large majority (more than half) of an injection period to inject fuel during an intake stroke in respective cylinders within a period where intake port gas pressure is increased. Upon intake stroke injection, the fuel is injected at optimum timing in correspondence with the direction and the level of gas flow velocity in the intake port. Accordingly, the status of air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber is excellent. It is possible to improve fuel consumption and to reduce exhaust emission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel supply control device for an internal combustion engine and a fuel vapor processing method. In the fuel supply control device that calculates a manipulated variable of a fuel pump such that a fuel pressure detected by a fuel pressure sensor is brought close to a target fuel pressure, a determination whether a fuel vapor is generated is made based on a detection value of the fuel pressure and the manipulated variable in a fuel pump, or the determination is made based on an amplitude of the detection value of the fuel pressure and an average fuel pressure in a fuel supply piping. During the fuel vapor generation, the target fuel pressure is corrected to be a higher value to increase the fuel pressure, thereby compressing and removing the fuel vapor. Therefore, in a fuel supply system, the fuel vapor generation can be detected at low cost to suppress the fuel vapor generation.

Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for fuel injection at optimum timing in correspondence with level of gas flow velocity in an intake port upon intake stroke injection. A fuel injection valve is controlled so as to set a large majority (more than half) of an injection period to inject fuel during an intake stroke in respective cylinders within a period where intake port gas pressure is increased. Upon intake stroke injection, the fuel is injected at optimum timing in correspondence with the direction and the level of gas flow velocity in the intake port. Accordingly, the status of air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber is excellent. It is possible to improve fuel consumption and to reduce exhaust emission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection control apparatus for controlling fuel injection and a method therefor in an engine having first and second intake passages provided with first and second fuel injection valves, respectively. Fuel injection modes using the two injection valves include an alternative injection mode in which the first and second fuel injection valves are alternately operated every predetermined number of cycles and a combined injection mode in which both the first and second fuel injection valves are used for each cycle. Then, the combined injection mode is selected in a full load range. In a partial load range, the alternative injection mode is selected in a cold state and the combined injection mode is selected after warm-up. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce an equilibrium amount of adhering fuel to an inner wall of an intake passage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel supply control apparatus and to a fuel supply control method, provided with an engine control unit and a fuel pump control unit. The engine control unit outputs an actuating signal for a fuel pump to the fuel pump control unit. The fuel pump control unit outputs a diagnostic signal indicating whether or not abnormality occurs in input of the actuating signal to the engine control unit. Furthermore, the engine control unit diagnoses whether or not abnormality occurs in input of the diagnostic signal and diagnoses based on the output signal from a fuel pressure sensor whether or not abnormality occurs in a control of fuel pressure. Then, the engine control unit performs a fail-safe function, based on whether or not the abnormality occurs in the input of the diagnostic signal, whether or not the abnormality occurs in the control of the fuel pressure, and whether or not the abnormality occurs in the input of the actuating signal in the fuel pump control unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel supply control apparatus and a fuel supply control method for controlling an electric fuel pump, in an internal combustion engine provided with the electric fuel pump for pumping fuel to a fuel injection valve and a pressure regulator for regulating fuel pressure at set pressure. When a learning condition of a drive voltage for the electric fuel pump is established, the drive voltage is temporarily reduced and a change amount ?AF of an air-fuel ratio at the time is detected. Then, if the change amount ?AF is within a first threshold ?AF1, the drive voltage is reduced, whereas, if the change amount ?AF is greater than a second threshold ?AF2 which is equal to or greater than the first threshold ?AF1, the drive voltage is increased.

Abstract: A fuel injection control for an internal combustion engine is performed. A fuel injection start timing from a first fuel injection valve placed in one intake port branching off for each cylinder is set to introduce a spray of fuel into the cylinder at the timing of introducing intake air into the cylinder, and a start timing of fuel injection from a second fuel injection valve placed in the other branching intake port is set in synchronization with the completion of injection of the first fuel injection valve, to start fuel injections from the first fuel injection valve and the second fuel injection valve at these set injection start timings. Accordingly, mixing performance of a spray of fuel and air is increased, and thus, enabling improvements in drivability during deceleration (torque shock), fuel economy, and exhaust emissions.

Abstract: Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve that injects fuel into an intake pipe at the upstream side of intake valves. When a deposition amount VDEPO of the intake valves is estimated, and becomes greater than a second threshold value SL2, the current mode switches to a cleaning mode to clean deposits away by increasing the amount of fuel adhering to the intake valves and changing the fuel injected by the fuel injection valve to a fuel with a higher cleaning performance, or one of increasing and changing. The increasing of the amount of fuel adhering to the intake valves is achieved by the changing of the injecting timing, the increasing of the fuel pressure, the switching of the fuel injection valve, and the like. Furthermore, changing of the fuel with the higher cleaning performance is achieved by switching to additive-containing fuel.

Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine that is capable of easily switching between a stratified operation mode and a non-stratified operation mode is provided for a port injection spark ignition internal combustion engine. Injection directions in which sprayed fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve are defined nearer the center of a cylinder than the centers of two intake valves. Injection timing of the fuel injection valve is controlled by the stratified operation mode completing the fuel injection in the exhaust stroke, and the non-stratified operation mode completing the fuel injection in a range from a compression stroke to the exhaust stroke. The injection end timing of the fuel injection valve in the stratified operation mode is retarded from the injection end timing in the non-stratified operation mode, in which the fuel injection time is equal to or shorter than that in the stratified operation mode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection control apparatus for controlling fuel injection and a method therefor in an engine having first and second intake passages provided with first and second fuel injection valves, respectively. Fuel injection modes using the two injection valves include an alternative injection mode in which the first and second fuel injection valves are alternately operated every predetermined number of cycles and a combined injection mode in which both the first and second fuel injection valves are used for each cycle. Then, the combined injection mode is selected in a full load range. In a partial load range, the alternative injection mode is selected in a cold state and the combined injection mode is selected after warm-up. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce an equilibrium amount of adhering fuel to an inner wall of an intake passage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel supply control apparatus and a fuel supply control method for controlling an electric fuel pump, in an internal combustion engine provided with the electric fuel pump for pumping fuel to a fuel injection valve and a pressure regulator for regulating fuel pressure at set pressure. When a learning condition of a drive voltage for the electric fuel pump is established, the drive voltage is temporarily reduced and a change amount ?AF of an air-fuel ratio at the time is detected. Then, if the change amount ?AF is within a first threshold ?AF1, the drive voltage is reduced, whereas, if the change amount ?AF is greater than a second threshold ?AF2 which is equal to or greater than the first threshold ?AF1, the drive voltage is increased.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel supply control device for an internal combustion engine and a fuel vapor processing method. In the fuel supply control device that calculates a manipulated variable of a fuel pump such that a fuel pressure detected by a fuel pressure sensor is brought close to a target fuel pressure, a determination whether a fuel vapor is generated is made based on a detection value of the fuel pressure and the manipulated variable in a fuel pump, or the determination is made based on an amplitude of the detection value of the fuel pressure and an average fuel pressure in a fuel supply piping. During the fuel vapor generation, the target fuel pressure is corrected to be a higher value to increase the fuel pressure, thereby compressing and removing the fuel vapor. Therefore, in a fuel supply system, the fuel vapor generation can be detected at low cost to suppress the fuel vapor generation.