Abstract: A cylinder injection type internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve for directly injecting a fuel into a cylinder and a catalyst for cleaning up an exhaust in an exhaust gas and has at least two combustion control patterns for activating rapidly the catalyst. The combustion control patterns are switched over based on a temperature of the catalyst. Furthermore, a stratified combustion is provided at the time of starting by making a configuration of the combustion engine optimum.

Abstract: An exhaust control system for a cylinder fuel injection engine having a cylinder injection injectors directly injecting a fuel into combustion chambers and a catalytic converter provided in an exhaust passage from said combustion chambers for purifying an exhaust gas, air/fuel ratio in the combustion chambers is periodically made rich for quicken activation of catalytic converter.

Abstract: A starting method of an engine wherein a fuel is directly injected into a combustion chamber, the engine having a starter for starting up the engine, the starting method including the steps of actuating the starter and injecting a fuel in a compression stroke when the starter is actuated.

Abstract: A drive system composed of an engine and a transmission is controlled in accordance with a desired wheel toque corresponding to a position of an accelerator, and a present vehicle speed in such a way that a speed ratio of the transmission is determined in consideration with torque factors such as an air-fuel ratio on the engine side, thereby it possible to optimize the control in order to reduce the emission of exhaust substance such as NOx and to enhance the acceleration performance and the fuel economy.

Abstract: In a starting time in which an air motion is little, a means for heightening the motion is added, from the starting time a stratification combustion operation is enable to carry out, and a discharge of an unburned fuel is minimized. From the starting time of an engine (from the firstly combustion cylinder) it is possible to carry out a stable stratification combustion. In accordance with the stratification combustion in the exhaust air a large quantity of the surplus oxygen remains. In the engine in the exhaust stroke twice (two time) fuel injection is carried out and the after burn phenomenon is caused in the exhaust port and then the exhaust gas temperature can be raised.

Abstract: The piston 4 is one whose top part has a flat shape. Fuel is injected directly inside the cylinder 1 from the fuel injection valve 2. The tumble air flow control valve 7 adjusts the strength of the tumble air flow. The injected fuel pressure control section 110 of the control unit 100 varies the injected fuel pressure in accordance with the rotational speed of the engine while maintaining constant the opening angle of the tumble air flow adjustment valve 7. The TCV opening angle control section 120 varies the opening angle of the tumble air flow adjustment valve 7 in accordance with the rotational speed of the engine while maintaining constant the injected fuel pressure. The control is made by switching between the injected fuel pressure control section 110 and the TCV opening angle control section 120 depending on the rotational speed of the engine.

Abstract: There is provided a cylinder injection type internal combustion engine capable of performing stratified charge operation at the time of a vehicle speed of 120 km/h and/or an engine rotational speed of 3200 rpm to enhance the fuel efficiency and/or to observe the emission regulations. In the internal combustion engine, a stratum of air and/or air flow is formed between a fuel spray injected from an injection valve and the top face of a piston and/or the wall surface of a combustion chamber, and a face shape contrived to guide the air flow is formed on the top face of the piston.

Abstract: The piston 4 is one whose top part has a flat shape. Fuel is injected directly inside the cylinder 1 from the fuel injection valve 2. The tumble air flow control valve 7 adjusts the strength of the tumble air flow. The combustion pressure control section 110 of the control unit 100 varies the combustion pressure in accordance with the rotational speed of the engine while maintaining constant the opening angle of the tumble air flow adjustment valve 7. The TCV opening angle control section 120 varies the opening angle of the tumble air flow adjustment valve 7 in accordance with the rotational speed of the engine while maintaining constant the combustion pressure. The control is made by switching between the combustion pressure control section 110 and the TCV opening angle control section 120 depending on the rotational speed of the engine.

Abstract: A control method of an internal combustion engine with which braking force while reducing the speed of the motor vehicle can be established by generating pumping loss effectively by using a variable valve mechanism enabling to control arbitrarily the open-close timing and the lift amount of air intake and exhaust valves of the engine. When the break step-on force detection means detects a step-on force on a brake and an operation of the anti-lock brake system is selected, at least one of the intake valve or the exhaust valve is made close, another one not closed of the intake valve or the exhaust valve is made open once in a single revolution of the engine while a piston moves from a top dead center to a bottom dead center, and a lift of the valve is controlled to be a designated value.

Abstract: The engine disclosed features an engine cylinder provided with an air intake valve, an injector having a fuel injection port which is directed towards an interior of the engine cylinder, and a control unit which is connected to the air intake valve and to the injector, the control unit effecting changes in the air intake amount by controlling the degree of opening of the air intake valve, and, also, controls the air/fuel ratio by changing the amount of fuel supplied by the injector. The engine also has an exhaust valve in the engine cylinder such that the control unit controls the intake valve and the exhaust valve so that an opening period of the intake valve is overlapped with an opening period of the exhaust valve at least when the opening period of the intake valve is maximum. The period of the overlap is longer when a relatively large amount of air is required than when a relatively small amount of air is required.

Abstract: Fuel-air mixture is stabilized with respect to the neighboring area of an ignition plug without any effect on deflection of fuel spray due to the air flow (swirl/tumble) in a combustion chamber, and the deposition of fuel onto the side wall of a combustion chamber is reduced, leading to the prevention of smoke.To that end, a fuel injection apparatus includes a fuel injection valve having a nozzle opening to a combustion chamber and an ignition plug, in which the fuel injection valve forms a fuel spray having different. levels of average speed. The fuel injection valve forms a fuel spray having relatively high speed at least in a half way of a single cycle of a fuel injection, and after that, the fuel injection valve forms relatively low-speed fuel spray, and consequently, a fuel-air mixture including high-speed fuel spray is supplied to a neighboring area of the ignition plug.

Abstract: A drive system composed of an engine and a transmission is controlled in accordance with a desired wheel toque corresponding to a position of an accelerator, and a present vehicle speed in such a way that a speed ratio of the transmission is determined in consideration with torque factors such as an air-fuel ratio on the engine side, thereby it possible to optimize the control in order to reduce the emission of exhaust substance such as NOx and to enhance the acceleration performance and the fuel economy.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine control system for controlling an internal combustion engine, comprising a fuel injection control apparatus for controlling fuel injection quantity to be injected by a fuel supply system for supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine, and fuel injection timing, and a variable valve control for continuously or gradually varying at least opening timing, closing timing or lift of a intake valve or an exhaust valve for sealing up a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The fuel injection control apparatus controls at least fuel injection quantity or fuel injection timing on the basis of a value of a controlled variable provided by the variable valve control. Since air quantity can be regulated by a variable valve timing mechanism, pumping loss and fuel consumption can be reduced.

Abstract: A method of controlling an internal combustion engine includes mechanism including an intake valve and an exhaust valve provided respectively to an intake port and an exhaust port of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a valve mechanism control means for controlling said valve mechanism, an operation condition detection for detecting an operation condition of the internal combustion engine, and a throttle valve for controlling an intake amount in response to an operation amount of an acceleration pedal. When the method of the internal combustion engine, wherein when the operation condition detector judges as a low load or a middle load of the operation condition of the internal combustion engine, the throttle valve is controlled to a high opening degree condition regardless of the operation amount of the acceleration pedal, and by controlling a valve closing timing and/or a valve lift amount of the intake valve, the intake amount is controlled.

Abstract: An engine drive torque controller has a first mode in which torque is controlled by varying air-fuel ratio within a range greater than stoichiometric and a second mode in which torque is controlled while maintaining a substantially fixed air-fuel ratio. The control modes are selected to keep nitrogen oxide emissions low. The torque controller also changes the air-fuel ratio during transmission shifting to prevent variations in torque.

Abstract: Swirl strength is formed to be 1-3.5, and the fuel mist speed of the fuel to be injected into a combustion chamber is formed to be 5-37 m/s or 5-25 m/s, whereby the air fuel ratio (A/F) is used as the lean limitation. Further, a control apparatus determines a lean combustion region according to the swirl strength and the fuel mist speed. By paying using the injection speed of the fuel, the rich air-fuel mixture and the lean air-fuel mixture are stratified by the combination of the swirl shape (the swirl strength) and the fuel mist speed.

Abstract: An air-fuel mixture supply apparatus includes an intake passage opening to a combustion chamber in a cylinder, an intake valve provided between the intake passage and the combustion chamber, a fuel injection valve for injecting at least one of branched spray flows directing to the intake valve, a swirl generator generates vortex flow in the mixture in the combustion chamber by controlling to choke the intake passage.

Abstract: An air intake system for an internal combustion engine uniformly distributes the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder, and concentrates the mixture in the vicinity of an ignition plug in the cylinder by selecting the direction of supply of sprayed fuel, thereby improving ignitability of the mixture at the time of lean-burn operation. The system produces tumble flow in the cylinder for accelerating combustion and provides lean-burn operation, thereby suppressing consumption of the fuel and reducing the amount of exhaust gas.The fuel is injected by a fuel injection valve and collides with an intake valve, before being atomized. The atomized fuel flows into the cylinder from the side of the intake valve closer to the fuel injection valve. On the other hand, high-velocity air flow from bypass passages enters the cylinder from the side of the intake valve closer to the ignition plug, so as to produce tumble flow in the cylinder.

Abstract: Under a partial load, a pumping loss is reduced by a stratified combustion to enhance a fuel consumption, and during the maximum output operation, the output is increased by a premixture combustion, and the output of an engine is controlled, thereby enhancing the drivability. Under the partial load, an ignition source is provided in the vicinity of a fuel injection valve, and after the fuel is injected, the mixture is ignited, and a resulting flame is caused by a spray of the fuel to spread into a cylinder, thereby effecting a stratified combustion. When the load increases, so that soot and so on are produced in the stratified combustion, the fuel injection is effected a plurality of times in a divided manner, and a premixture is produced within the cylinder by the front-half injection, and a flame, produced by the latter-half injection, is injected into the cylinder to burn this premixture.

Abstract: An air intake system for an internal combustion engine uniformly distributes the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder, and concentrates the mixture in the vicinity of an ignition plug in the cylinder by selecting the direction of supply of sprayed fuel, thereby improving ignitability of the mixture at the time of lean-burn operation. The system produces tumble flow in the cylinder for accelerating combustion and provides lean-burn operation, thereby suppressing consumption of the fuel and reducing the amount of exhaust gas. The fuel is injected by a fuel injection valve and collides with an intake valve, before being atomized. The atomized fuel flows into the cylinder from the side of the intake valve closer to the fuel injection valve. On the other hand, high-velocity air flow from bypass passages enters the cylinder from the side of the intake valve closer to the ignition plug, so as to produce tumble flow in the cylinder.