Abstract: An internal combustion engine including an in-cylinder injection injector and an intake port-injection injector. An ECU includes a fuel injection duration calculation portion that calculates a requested fuel injection duration and a fuel injection control portion that causes the in-cylinder injection injector to inject fuel during the compression stroke during the cold start of the engine, and that causes fuel to be injected also in a manner other than the fuel injection performed by the in-cylinder injection injector during the compression stroke if the requested fuel injection duration is longer than or equal to an interval time. Therefore, even if the requested fuel injection duration is longer than or equal to the interval time, the emissions can be reduced while a startability during a cold start of the internal combustion engine is secured.

Abstract: According to the invention, an exhaust gas purification device for an engine is provided. The device comprises: a plurality of cylinders, the cylinders being divided into at least two cylinder groups; exhaust branch pipes connected to the cylinder groups at their upstream ends, respectively; a common exhaust pipe connected to the downstream ends of the exhaust branch pipes; and a NOx catalyst positioned in the common exhaust pipe.

Abstract: In an exhaust purification system that purifies exhaust from a plurality of cylinder groups of an internal combustion engine, an exhaust passageway (1,51) from each cylinder group is divided into a plurality of passageways (2a, 2b, 52a, 52b/3,53). With regard to one or more of the divided exhaust passageways (3,53), the amount of exhaust passing therethrough is reduced so as to reduce the heat release to the outside from the exhaust as a whole. In this manner, the temperature of exhaust introduced into an exhaust purification device (4,54) is kept at high temperature.

Abstract: To provide an ignition timing controller of an internal combustion engine which prevents poor acceleration due to overcorrection for retard and the occurrence of knocking due to undercorrection for retard regardless of a change in the ratio of fuel injections, the internal combustion engine with an injector (11) for in-cylinder injection and an injector (12) for intake passage injection includes a transitional retard control section for correcting ignition timing for retard to prevent knocking during transitional operation of the engine, wherein a control amount by the transitional retard control section depends on a ratio of an amount of fuel injection from the injector (11) for in-cylinder injection to an amount of fuel injection from the injector (12) for intake passage injection.

Abstract: A knocking determining apparatus of an internal combustion engine that includes an in-cylinder injector and an intake port injector and that determines knocking based on an output signal of a knock sensor. The knocking determining apparatus includes a knocking determination prohibition unit prohibiting, when a ratio of fuel injection from the in-cylinder injector and the intake port injector is changed, knocking determination for a prescribed period after that change, or a knocking determination level change unit changing a knocking determination level for a prescribed period after that change.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an in-cylinder injector injecting a fuel into a cylinder and an intake port injector injecting a fuel into an intake port. In the internal combustion engine, when a fuel injection ratio between the in-cylinder injector and the intake port injector is changed such that the ratio of fuel injection from the in-cylinder injector is increased, ignition timing is retard-corrected for a prescribed period after that change.

Abstract: There is provided an air supply apparatus for an engine comprising a plurality of exhaust pipes and catalysts arranged in the exhaust pipes, respectively, the apparatus comprising devices for supplying air into the interior of the corresponding exhaust pipes upstream of the corresponding catalysts, respectively.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a fuel pressure sensor to detect the pressure of the fuel supplied from a fuel pump to an injector; an in-cylinder pressure sensor, which serves as a combustion chamber temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature in the combustion chamber or the parameter depending on the temperature, to detect in-cylinder pressure (combustion chamber pressure); and an ECU that controls to execute the first fuel injection of each cylinder by the injector when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is not less than a predetermined threshold fuel pressure and when the in-cylinder pressure detected by the in-cylinder pressure sensor is not less than a threshold in-cylinder pressure.

Abstract: To provide an ignition timing controller of an internal combustion engine which prevents poor acceleration due to overcorrection for retard and the occurrence of knocking due to undercorrection for retard regardless of a change in the ratio of fuel injections, the internal combustion engine with an injector (11) for in-cylinder injection and an injector (12) for intake passage injection includes a transitional retard control section for correcting ignition timing for retard to prevent knocking during transitional operation of the engine, wherein a control amount by the transitional retard control section depends on a ratio of an amount of fuel injection from the injector (11) for in-cylinder injection to an amount of fuel injection from the injector (12) for intake passage injection.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a fuel pressure sensor to detect the pressure of the fuel supplied from a fuel pump to an injector; an in-cylinder pressure sensor, which serves as a combustion chamber temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature in the combustion chamber or the parameter depending on the temperature, to detect in-cylinder pressure (combustion chamber pressure); and an ECU that controls to execute the first fuel injection of each cylinder by the injector when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is not less than a predetermined threshold fuel pressure and when the in-cylinder pressure detected by the in-cylinder pressure sensor is not less than a threshold in-cylinder pressure.

Abstract: A torque correspondence value (e.g., estimated indicated torque) is determined. The degree of torque correspondence value variation in a plurality of previous cycles is digitized as a variation index value (e.g., locus length). If the variation index value is smaller than a predetermined first judgment value, the intake air amount of an internal combustion engine is corrected. If the variation index value is not smaller than the first judgment value, the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine is corrected. If the variation index value is not smaller than a second judgment value, which is greater than the first judgment value, the ignition timing and fuel injection amount of the internal combustion engine are both corrected.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an in-cylinder injector injecting a fuel into a cylinder and an intake port injector injecting a fuel into an intake port. In the internal combustion engine, when a fuel injection ratio between the in-cylinder injector and the intake port injector is changed such that the ratio of fuel injection from the in-cylinder injector is increased, ignition timing is retard-corrected for a prescribed period after that change.

Abstract: A knocking determining apparatus of an internal combustion engine that includes an in-cylinder injector and an intake port injector and that determines knocking based on an output signal of a knock sensor. The knocking determining apparatus includes a knocking determination prohibition unit prohibiting, when a ratio of fuel injection from the in-cylinder injector and the intake port injector is changed, knocking determination for a prescribed period after that change, or a knocking determination level change unit changing a knocking determination level for a prescribed period after that change.

Abstract: A torque correspondence value (e.g., estimated indicated torque) is determined. The degree of torque correspondence value variation in a plurality of previous cycles is digitized as a variation index value (e.g., locus length). If the variation index value is smaller than a predetermined first judgment value, the intake air amount of an internal combustion engine is corrected. If the variation index value is not smaller than the first judgment value, the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine is corrected. If the variation index value is not smaller than a second judgment value, which is greater than the first judgment value, the ignition timing and fuel injection amount of the internal combustion engine are both corrected.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus adopted to an internal combustion engine provided with air-fuel ratio learning means for learning a primary air-fuel ratio given in the form of a mass ratio between air and fuel introduced into a combustion chamber, comprises an exhaust gas purifying catalyst provided in an exhaust gas passage of the engine and a catalyst activating means for supplying secondary air to an upstream of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst and increasing the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine to activate the exhaust gas purifying catalyst.

Abstract: In air-fuel ratio feedback control, a rich skip amount is made larger than a lean skip amount by an offset amount OS such that a feedback control center is offset to the rich side. As a result, the amount of error from an erroneous detection by an O2 sensor is absorbed and deterioration of gas emissions in a multiple-injection mode is minimized.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus adopted to an internal combustion engine provided with air-fuel ratio learning means for learning a primary air-fuel ratio given in the form of a mass ratio between air and fuel introduced into a combustion chamber, comprises an exhaust gas purifying catalyst provided in an exhaust gas passage of the engine and a catalyst activating means for supplying secondary air to an upstream of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst and increasing the quantity of fuel supplied to the engine to activate the exhaust gas purifying catalyst.

Abstract: In air-fuel ratio feedback control, a rich skip amount is made larger than a lean skip amount by an offset amount OS such that a feedback control center is offset to the rich side. As a result, the amount of error from an erroneous detection by an O2 sensor is absorbed and deterioration of gas emissions in a multiple-injection mode is minimized.

Abstract: A direct-fuel-injection-type internal combustion engine is equipped with an injector for injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber of a cylinder. A controller controls the degree of opening of a throttle valve for adjusting the amount of air drawn into the combustion chamber and sets the throttle valve to a closed valve state by setting the degree of opening of the throttle valve to a degree of opening that is on the closed valve side of a post-engine start target degree of opening, when the engine is to be started. After it is determined that a start of the engine has been accomplished, the controller opens the throttle valve by gradually increasing the degree of opening of the throttle valve from the degree of opening of the closed valve state to the post-engine start target degree of opening.

Abstract: A fuel pressure control apparatus and method controls a pressure of fuel that is delivered from a fuel pump to a fuel pipe in an internal combustion engine of a vehicle. A controller of the fuel pressure control apparatus calculates a controlled variable based on at least an integral term that is updated in accordance with a difference between an actual fuel pressure in the fuel pipe and a target value thereof; and controls an amount of the fuel delivered from the fuel pump in a feedback manner, using the controlled variable, so that the actual fuel pressure approaches the target value. During the control of the fuel pressure, the controller inhibits updating of the integral term to a value that results in an increase in the amount of the fuel delivered from the fuel pump, when the amount of the fuel delivered is approximate to or equal to a maximum value thereof.