Abstract: A bi-fuel internal combustion engine is intended for suppressing consumption of gasoline fuel and reducing exhaust emissions; under ordinary operations, a CNG fuel emitting smaller amounts of NOx, HC, CO, and the like as compared with a gasoline fuel, is used as a supply fuel to reduce the exhaust emissions; in this case, a fuel injection device is required for each of the two types of fuel, that is, the gasoline fuel and the CNG fuel and the problem is torque change and fluctuation occurring when the fuel is switched from gasoline to CNG, or vice versa.

Abstract: An engine power train control method and control apparatus for a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission is capable of quickly changing an air-fuel ratio to meet the requirements for exhaust gas without producing shocks and without reducing engine torque. An air-fuel ratio command value is varied stepwise for transition between an air-fuel ratio for lean-burn operation and a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and at the same time, the period following the completion of the stepwise variation of the air-fuel ratio command value, a basic fuel amount fed to the engine is varied stepwise from a value determined according to the air amount and an engine speed to a value determined according to a position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle and the engine speed. In this way, shocks do not occur and the operability is improved, because the engine torque remains substantially constant through the air-fuel ratio transition.

Abstract: The invention provides an output torque control method and apparatus for a lean burn internal combustion engine which accounts for aging of component parts, and in which no stepwise change of torque or shock occur when an air fuel ratio is changed. The method and apparatus according to the invention control an intake air amount while maintaining an emission purification function by controlling the air fuel ratio to that of a theoretical mixture (air fuel ratio of 14.7) in a case where a limit NOx emission is determined by using a detected air fuel ratio and lean burn operation becomes difficult due to the amount of NOx emissions. Abrupt change of an output torque when the air fuel ratio is changed is curtailed by controlling a fuel amount or an air amount after calculating the fuel amount or the air amount from an engine speed and an accelerator depression angle.

Abstract: In a valve control apparatus for an automobile, an H-bridge type chopper main circuit 4 is operated by a control signal PWM from a microcomputer 1 to thereby drive a motor 9 for controlling a throttle valve 10. The power element current from the chopper main circuit 4 is detected by a shunt resistor 5 in the form of a voltage, and the detected voltage is amplified by an amplifier 6 and then taken into the microcomputer 1 through a sample hold circuit 12 and an A/D converter. The sample hold circuit 12 is operated in synchronism with the control signal PWM from the microcomputer 1. Further, the A/D converter is also operated in synchronism with the control signal PWM from the microcomputer 1. The motor 9 is controlled by a throttle valve opening angle command and a throttle valve opening angle signal, and further the motor 9 is controlled by a detected motor current.

Abstract: The invention provides an output torque control method and apparatus for a lean burn internal combustion engine which accounts for aging of component parts, and in which no stepwise change of torque or shock occur when an air fuel ratio is changed. The method and apparatus according to the invention control an intake air amount while maintaining an emission purification function by controlling the air fuel ratio to that of a theoretical mixture (air fuel ratio of 14.7) in a case where a limit NOx emission is determined by using a detected air fuel ratio and lean burn operation becomes difficult due to the amount of NOx emissions. Abrupt change of an output torque when the air fuel ratio is changed is curtailed by controlling a fuel amount or an air amount after calculating the fuel amount or the air amount from an engine speed and an accelerator depression angle.

Abstract: The invention provides an output torque control method and apparatus for a lean burn internal combustion engine which accounts for aging of component parts, and in which no stepwise change of torque or shock occur when an air fuel ratio is changed. The method and apparatus according to the invention control an intake air amount while maintaining an emission purification function by controlling the air fuel ratio to that of a theoretical mixture (air fuel ratio of 14.7) in a case where a limit NOx emission is determined by using a detected air fuel ratio and lean burn operation becomes difficult due to the amount of NOx emissions. Abrupt change of an output torque when the air fuel ratio is changed is curtailed by controlling a fuel amount or an air amount after calculating the fuel amount or the air amount from an engine speed and an accelerator depression angle.

Abstract: An engine power train control method and control apparatus for a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission is capable of quickly changing an air-fuel ratio to meet the requirements for exhaust gas without producing shocks and without reducing engine torque. An air-fuel ratio command value is varied stepwise for transition between an air-fuel ratio for lean-burn operation and a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and at the same time, the period following the completion of the stepwise variation of the air-fuel ratio command value, a basic fuel amount fed to the engine is varied stepwise from a value determined according to the air amount and an engine speed to a value determined according to a position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle and the engine speed. In this way, shocks do not occur and the operability is improved, because the engine torque remains substantially constant through the air-fuel ratio transition.

Abstract: A torque detection mechanism can be provided for a power train and its control unit without newly adding a sensor and its signal processing module. As a gear pair for the torque detection mechanism of a phase difference type, existing gears in a transmission are used, or a gear pair for this mechanism are provided adjacent to these existing gears. From phase signals sent from pickups, a phase difference signal is obtained by use of one part of existing devices in the control unit. The torque detection mechanism can be realized with the minimum number of component parts by utilizing the existing members and spaces instead of newly adding a sensor and its module. The invention can be applied to either of FF and FR cars, and has a practical structure in respect of the performance, costs and reliability.

Abstract: A car control apparatus in which correction characteristics indicating whether or not various control constants are proper or not are calculated through loop control of one of the car's operation parameters, such as the air-fuel ratio, on the basis of the air-fuel ratio correction factors subjected to learning to thereby rationalize the control constants such as the fundamental injection time so as to realize proper fuel injection and proper ignition timing control.

Abstract: An engine control system is disclosed in which the air-fuel ratio is controlled by feedback in accordance with the oxygen concentration detected of the exhaust gas, and a feedback control system thereof separate learning compensation values for compensating for the changes of the input/output characteristics of an air flow meter and a fuel injector respectively.

Abstract: In a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for receiving outputs of a crank angle sensor, air flow sensor, etc., calculating control values from these outputs using a microcomputer to actuate actuators; calculated timings at which the respective actuators are deactuated are compared in advance with each other, the control value for the actuator which should be deactuated earliest is stored in an output compare register, and a deactuation signal for the actuator is generated with count matching of two inputs to a comparator of the output compare register. Thus the respective actuators are sequentially controlled.

Abstract: A method for feedback controlling air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders comprises the steps of, detecting respective air-fuel ratios of the exhaust gas from the respective cylinders with an air-fuel ratio sensor having a substantially linear output characteristic; calculating an average air-fuel ratio by using the latest detected air-fuel ratios of the respective cylinders; determining a fundamental feedback correction coefficient .beta..sub.0 for a cylinder of which air fuel ratio is feedback controlled next; retrieving a learning correction coefficient .beta..sub.1 for the cylinder of which air-fuel ratio is feedback controlled next from a learning map prepared by learning for the corresponding cylinder; and determining new learning correction coefficients .beta..sub.

Abstract: A learning map on which the rewriting of data is performed in accordance with the results of an internal combustion engine controlling operation is provided. When the number of pieces of data written in this learning map has become greater than one, the corresponding weighting is done for each unlearned region in the basis of the learning data on the learning already-learned regions, and the data in the already learned regions is written in unlearned region. The controlling of the engine is performed on the basis of the data written in the learning map.

Abstract: A novel method of controlling air-fuel ratio for an internal combustion engine is disclosed, which comprises a memory area for holding regional compensation factors used for air-fuel ratio control, a memory area for holding new regional compensation factors obtained by learning, and a memory area for holding regional compensation factors based on the result of the learning immediately before the latest learning, thus rationalizing the new setting and updating proceses of regional compensation factors according to the result of learning.

Abstract: A combustion pressure detecting apparatus for generating an electrical signal in response to a combustion pressure of an internal combustion engine, wherein an electrical signal based on said combustion pressure is detected at a predetermined angle of rotation of said engine, the detected value being compared with a predetermined reference value to derive a difference therebetween, including correcting means for executing correcting operations in dependence on said difference.

Abstract: A novel method of controlling air-fuel ratio for an internal combustion engine is disclosed, which comprises a memory area for holding regional compensation factors used for air-fuel ratio control, a memory area for holding new regional compensation factors obtained by learning, and a memory area for holding regional compensation factors based on the result of the learning immediately before the latest learning, thus rationalizing the new setting and updating processes of regional compensation factors according to the result of learning.

Abstract: An engine control apparatus includes a microprocessor, a ROM for holding a program required for the operation of the microprocessor, and a RAM for holding data supplied from the microprocessor. Pulse signals representative of results of the arithmetic operations executed by the arithmetic unit on the basis of input signals available from various sensors as well as data stored in the memory in accordance with the program are supplied to actuators for controlling engine operations through an input/output circuit. The control apparatus further includes a counter for counting crank angle pulses produced in synchronism with rotation of the engine shaft, an interrupt request generating circuit for requiring an interrupt to the microprocessor when overflow occurs in the counter. In response to every interrupt request, the microprocessor causes the count value held in the RAM to be incremented by unity.

Abstract: In an electronic control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the contents of a selected reference register are compared with the count contents of a timer so that when equality is found therebetween, an interrupt signal is applied to a central processing unit, which then computes when and how a control condition is to be changed with respect to one of a plurality of controlled systems and the contents of the reference register are updated accordingly. In addition, a plurality of actuators for controlling the operation of the engine are selectively controlled in accordance with control signals generated from the central processing unit on the basis of the receipt of the interrupt signals.

Abstract: A method of controlling an internal combustion engine employs a microcomputer to control the fuel supply to the engine as well as the ignition timing thereof on the basis of measurement of the air quantity fed to the engine. For measuring the air quantity charged to the engine with high accuracy, the intake air flow fed to the engine is sampled in synchronism with the pulsating variation thereof. A value obtained by averaging the sampled values is used as the intake air quantity on the basis of which the fuel supply and the ignition timing are arithmetically determined.

Abstract: A method of controlling fuel supplied to an engine comprises the steps of computing the quantity of air taken into the engine on the basis of the output from an air flow rate sensor, integrating the quantity of intake air computed in the first step, determining the level for setting the period of generation of a fuel-quantity control pulse signal from a pulse generating circuit on the basis of the output from an exhaust gas sensor, and generating pulses of predetermined pulse width from the pulse generating circuit when a predetermined relation is attained between the level determined in the third step and the result of integration in the second step.