Deceleration Condition Responsive Patents (Class 123/493)
  • Patent number: 5095877
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a quantity of fuel injected into an internal combustion engine comprises a sensor for detecting atomspheric pressure, a sensor for detecting a load condition of an internal combustion engine, and an electronic control device including a microprocessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kikuchi, Kazunori Kishita, Masakazu Ninomiya, Jun Ozeki
  • Patent number: 5094206
    Abstract: A method is described for increasing engine braking, when a crankcase scavenged two-stroke engine is operated in a deceleration fuel cut-off mode. In response to the detection of operating conditions indicating engine operation in the deceleration fuel cut-off mode, the quantity of air inducted into the engine is decreased, for a predetermined period of time. After this period of time elapses, the quantity of air inducted into the engine is then increased. This is preferably accomplished by regulating the degree of opening of a throttle valve disposed within the engine air intake system. The initial closing of the throttle valve restricts air flow through the engine for a predetermined time, to maintain efficient catalyst operating temperatures in the engine exhaust system. During extended operation in the deceleration fuel cut-off mode, the throttle valve is opened, after the lapse of the predetermined time, to increase the quantity of air inducted by the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Buslepp, Paul E. Reinke, Douglas E. Trombley
  • Patent number: 5092301
    Abstract: A digital fuel control system for a small internal combustion engine having a pressure sensor for detecting the instantaneous pressure in the air intake manifold of the engine to generate air pressure data. A microprocessor responsive to the air pressure data generates a fuel quantity output signal indicative of the quantity of fuel to be delivered to the engine. A fuel metering apparatus responsive to the fuel quantity output signal generated by the microprocessor meters the fuel being delivered to a fuel delivery mechanism which delivers the fuel into the air intake manifold of the engine. The microprocessor in response to the air pressure data generated by the pressure sensor determines the engine's speed and the average pressure of the air inhaled by the engine. The engine speed data and air pressure data address a look-up table to extract data indicative of the fuel requirements of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Zenith Fuel Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur J. Ostdiek
  • Patent number: 5081975
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an engine and method of operating it wherein a rapid and smooth return to normal idle speed is accomplished when the engine has been running at a high speed condition and the throttle is rapidly closed. This is accomplished by setting the injection timing to achieve an idle speed lower than normal idle speed and when this lower than normal idle speed is reached, then the injection timing is set back to normal injection timing for the desired or normal idle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kosei Maebashi
  • Patent number: 5080071
    Abstract: In a fuel control system for an internal combustion engine, fuel is injected in a quantity the direct delivery part of which provides a desired quantity of fuel to be actually fed to the engine together with the drawn part of the intake-manifold wetting fuel. The quantity of the intake-manifold wetting fuel on the basis of which the quantity of the drawn part is calculated is calculated on the basis of the quantity of the adhering part of the fuel which was injected by the preceding injection and the quantity of the residual part of the preceding intake-manifold wetting fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kunitomo Minamitani, Tetsuro Takaba, Terufumi Yamashita, Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 5080074
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device comprising a memory which stores the relationship between the degree of opening of the throttle valve and the absolute pressure in the intake passage, which pressure is produced when the engine is in a cruising state. When a difference between the blunt value of the actual absolute pressure in the intake passage and the absolute pressure stored in the memory exceeds a fixed value, the air-fuel mixture is changed from the mixture for the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to a lean mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Tsukamoto, Toshio Takaoka, Takao Fukuma, Hirofumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 5069184
    Abstract: An apparatus to calculate the intake pipe pressure using the degree of throttle opening and the engine speed, to use this intake pipe pressure to calculate a current intake pipe pressure, and to determine a predicted value from this current intake pipe pressure and control fuel injection duration and/or spark timing. Becuase changes in the atmospheric pressure and changes in the air amount flowing through a bypass bypassing the throttle, etc., cause errors in the values predicted for the intake pipe pressure, there are irregularities in the exhaust emission. the atmospheric pressure and the intake pipe pressure, etc., detected by a pressure sensor are used to correct the predicted value, and prevent irregularities and the like in exhaust emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Toyoto Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Senji Kato, Hidehiro Oba
  • Patent number: 5065716
    Abstract: A fuel supply control system performs asynchronous fuel injection in response to acceleration demand for injecting a controlled amount of fuel irrespective of an engine revolution cycle. The amount of fuel for asynchronous injection in an engine transition state from engine decelerating state, in which fuel cut-off is performed, to engine acceleration state, is determined on the basis of a set value which is a latched fuel injection upon initiation of fuel cut-off operation, and an instantaneous fuel injection amount derived on the basis of the instantaneous fuel injection control parameters. The set value is modified in relation to an amount of fuel left on a periphery of an induction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toyoaki Nakagawa, Hatsuo Nagaishi
  • Patent number: 5065328
    Abstract: A system and method for recognizing a stagnation state for a vehicle are disclosed in which a running characteristic pattern of the vehicle is derived on the basis of running parameters such as the vehicle speed, acceleration of the vehicle, and deceleration of the vehicle, and whether the running characteristic pattern substantially coincides with a running characteristic pattern peculiar to a state in which the vehicle runs in the stagnation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimi Abo, Shuzo Fukuzumi
  • Patent number: 5058022
    Abstract: A device for detecting whether an engine brake condition exists includes a memory for storing the rotating speed of the engine corresponding to the degree of opening of the throttle valve, a detector for detecting the degree of opening of the throttle valve, a detector of the actual rotating speed of the engine, and a device for determining that the engine is an engine brake state when the actual speed of the engine corresponding to the actual degree of opening of the throttle valve exceeds the speed of the engine stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Kita, Hiroyuki Fujii, Hiroshi Uzawa
  • Patent number: 5050563
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture control system which provides the possibility of interrupting fuel during overrun operation. The mixture control system includes apparatus for controllably reducing fuel metering at the start of overrun operation and/or controllably resuming the metering of fuel after the end of overrun operation with the controllable reduction and/or resumption taking place via a corresponding control via the integrator component of the mixture control in dependence upon the composition of the exhaust gas. A very advantageous system with respect to complexity and computation time is provided by the cooperative relationship between lambda control and mixture control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Kohler
  • Patent number: 5044343
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling fuel supply to an internal combustion engine are disclosed in which excessive supply of fuel to the engine is effectively prevented in a most reliable manner particularly at the time of engine deceleration. To this end, a reduction in the amount of intake air sucked into an engine per intake stroke is sensed, and the amount of fuel supplied to the engine is reduced when there is a reduction in the intake air amount sucked into engine per intake stroke. The amount of reduction in the fuel supply is changed in accordance with at least one of the number of revolutions per minute of the engine and the amount of intake air sucked into the engine per intake stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kanno, Jiro Sumitani
  • Patent number: 5035225
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus which controls the regular fuel injection amount based on a control law determined in accordance with a fuel dynamic model showing the dynamics of fuel flowing into an engine cylinder using as state variables the amount of fuel sticking to the walls of the intake passage and the amount of fuel evaporating in the intake passage.During deceleration operation, the regular fuel injection is stopped, the control law correction fuel injection amount is determined from the parameter values of the fuel dynamic model, the true values of the rate of fuel sticking to the walls of the intake passage and the rate of remainder of sticking fuel, which are parameters of the fuel dynamic model, are identified based on the amount of fuel injection, the amount of air flowing into the cylinder, and the air-fuel ratio, and the control law is corrected based on the results of the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Mizukoshi
  • Patent number: 5020495
    Abstract: In a fuel-metering system for internal combustion engines, the fuel metering is stopped during the overrun operation of the engine and, after overrun cutoff, is increased temporarily with respect to the metering necessary for normal operation and the instantaneous operating point of the engine, in order to accelerate with this fuel enrichment the build-up again of the fuel film in the intake pipe without impairing the composition of the fuel/air mixture. For exact apportioning of the fuel enrichment, the output signal of a lambda probe (21) characterizing the "rich mixture" is used as cutoff criterion for the fuel enrichment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Plapp
  • Patent number: 5018494
    Abstract: An idling speed control device normally controlling the idling speed of the engine so that it becomes equal to a desired idling speed. At the time of acceleration, the lean time and the rich time of the air-fuel mixture are calculated during the lean-rich discriminating time, which is basically equal to a time of an occurrence of the lean time and the rich time when the air-fuel ratio is maintained at the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio at the time of acceleration. If the lean time becomes considerably longer than the rich time when the engine is started, the idling speed is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihiro Sonoda, Kouichi Osawa, Hiroshi Kanai, Kouichi Hoshi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Michihiro Ohashi, Hiroshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 5016181
    Abstract: An ignition timing control system of an engine comprises an ignition timing correction quantity memory device for storing an ignition timing correction quantity, an ignition timing correction quantity retrieving device for retrieving the ignition timing correction quantity during a delay time from the ignition timing correction quantity memory device in accordance with engine speed, and an ignition timing calculating device for computing and correcting the ignition timing during the delay time on the basis of the ignition timing correction quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuji Hayashida
  • Patent number: 5003950
    Abstract: An apparatus to calculate the intake pipe pressure using the degree of throttle opening and the engine speed, to use this intake pipe pressure to calculate a current intake pipe pressure, and to determine a predicted value from this current intake pipe pressure and control fuel injection duration and/or spark timing. Because changes in the atmospheric pressure and changes in the air amount flowing through a bypass bypassing the throttle, etc., cause errors in the values predicted for the intake pipe pressure, there are irregularities in the exhaust emissions. The atmospheric pressure and the intake pipe pressure, etc., detected by a pressure sensor are used to correct the predicted value, and prevent irregularities and the like in exhaust emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Senji Kato, Hidehiro Oba
  • Patent number: 4996960
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. A basic fuel injection quantity is determined by using a cylinder pressure at a predetermined crank angle, and a signal provided by an intake air temperature sensor as parameters. A compensation fuel injection quantity for an accelerating mode or a decelerating mode is determined on the basis of a predetermined cylinder pressure variation corresponding to the variation of the output of a throttle opening sensor and an engine speed. The air-fuel ratio control system does not need an expensive air flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji Nishiyama, Satoru Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 4995366
    Abstract: An estimating execution for an inner surface portion adhesion fuel amount is practiced distinctlly and independently to an execution processing for a basic fuel injection amount. A correction coefficient to be multiplied by the basic fuel injection amount is calculated in accordance with the estimation execution for the inner wall surface portion adhesion fuel amount. The correction coefficient is multiplied by the basic fuel injection amount. Since the fuel injection amount is corrected in accordance with the estimated inner surface portion adhesion fuel amount, an air-fuel ratio during a transitional period of an engine can be maintained at a desirable value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Manaka, Masami Shida
  • Patent number: 4991559
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device in which the amount of fuel injected by the fuel injector is increased at the time of acceleration. Namely, at the time of acceleration, the lean time and the rich time of the air-fuel mixture are calculated during the lean-rich discriminating time, which is basically equal to a time of an occurence of the lean time and the rich time when the air-fuel ratio is maintained at the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio at the time of acceleration. When the lean time becomes considerably longer than the rich time, the amount of fuel injected by the fuel injector is further increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Osawa, Hiroshi Kanai, Kouichi Hoshi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Michihiro Ohashi, Yukihiro Sonoda, Hiroshi Sawada, Shinichi Matsumoto, Kiyoshi Asada, Hidehiro Oba, Sinji Kato, Katsushi Anzai, Ryouichi Harada
  • Patent number: 4987888
    Abstract: In a fuel supply control method of an automobile engine wherein a plurality of parameters representing an operating condition of the engine are measured, and a fuel supply quantity is determined based on the measured values so as to attain a target air-fuel ratio, an amount of air flowing into each cylinder in an n-th stroke (n is an arbitrary integer) is calculated for prediction by using the measured parameters in a stroke preceding the n-th stroke, and the fuel supply quantity is determined by the predicted value of the amount of air in the n-th stroke and a target value of the air-fuel ratio in the n-th stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohisa Funabashi, Teruji Sekozawa, Makoto Shioya, Mikihiko Onari, Shinsuke Takahashi, Gohki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4987890
    Abstract: A fuel injection control system for controlling the amount of fuel to be injected to an internal combustion engine. The fuel injection control system consists of a control unit arranged to calculate the fuel injection amount in accordance with a standard injection amount corrected with a transient correction amount. The transient correction amount is calculated in accordance with a difference value and a correction coefficient which is previously set in accordance with engine operating condition. The difference value is of between an equilibrium amount of adhering and floating fuel in steady state in an intake system and a predicted variable of amount of the adhering and floating fuel at a predetermined point of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hatsuo Nagaishi
  • Patent number: 4981122
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device in which the supply of fuel into the engine cylinder is stopped at the time of deceleration, and a rich time of the air-fuel mixture is calculated when the supply of fuel is stopped. If the rich time becomes relatively long, the accelerating increasing rate of the amount of fuel is increased, and if the rich time becomes relatively short, the accelerating increasing rate of the amount of fuel is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Osawa, Hiroshi Kanai, Kouichi Hoshi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Michihiro Ohashi, Yukihiro Sonoda, Hiroshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 4976242
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device in which it is determined whether the air-fuel mixture is lean or rich at a predetermined crankangle during a lean-rich discriminating time at the time of acceleration. The lean-rich discriminating time is shortened as the degree of the acceleration becomes larger, and the times of being lean and the times of being rich within the lean-rich discriminating time are calculated. When the times of being lean are larger than the times of being rich, and the difference therebetween is larger than a predetermined value, the accelerating increasing rate of the amount of fuel fed into the engine cylinder is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihiro Sonoda, Kouichi Osawa, Hiroshi Kanai, Kouichi Hoshi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Michihiro Ohashi, Hiroshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 4976243
    Abstract: A fuel supply control system for internal combustion engines with an air flow mounted in a intake manifold, a throttle valve opening sensor and a control unit, in which at quick acceleration the control unit generates a correction air flow quantity signal in accordance with the change of the output of the throttle valve opening sensor and corrects the output signal of the air flow sensor by the correction air flow quantity signal, whereby estimating real air flow quantity sucked into the engine cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinori Sano, Mineo Kashiwaya, Yuuji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4966118
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine has a controller, which includes a microprocessor for executing a predetermined processing in response to fundamental parameters representing the operational condition of the engine, produces a basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of a suction air quantity and a rotational speed of the engine and corrects the basic fuel injection pulse in accordance with the degree of acceleration or deceleration required, thereby to provide a fuel injection pulse applied to a fuel injector. The microprocessor is provided with membership functions varying with respect to acceleration or deceleration and determines a correction coefficient for correcting the basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of the degree of acceleration or deceleration required in accordance with fuzzy reasoning using the membership functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomiya Itakura, Hiroshi Kamifuji
  • Patent number: 4962742
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for an automotive spark ignition internal combustion engine provided with a supercharger is disclosed, wherein the amount of fuel injected in synchrony with the crank angle signal is determined on the basis of the intake air pressure. The increment of the air pressure data over each fuel injection period is compared with a first threshold level to determine the first augmentation. The pressure data is averaged over each fuel injection period, and the increment of the averaged pressure data over a predetermined interval of time is compared with a second threshold level to determine the second augmentation. The fundamental amount is calculated on the basis of either the instantaneous or the averaged pressure data, in dependency on the value of the first augmentation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Kimito Kashiwabara, Osamu Nako, Mitsuaki Ishii, Kouichi Yamane, Masaaki Miyazaki, Ryoji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 4961411
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and fuel injectors provided to inject fuel in a sequential fashion for the respective cylinders. Fuel injection is made twice from a given fuel injector. The control circuit calculates a first value for the amount of fuel injected from the fuel injector during the first fuel injection and a second value for the amount of fuel injected from the fuel injector during the second fuel injection. During transition of the engine operation, an engine load variation is produced between the times at which the first and second values are calculated. A correction factor is calculated based on the engine load variation with an estimation of a first value to be calculated for the cylinder when the fuel injected during the first and second fuel injections is charged in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Katsunori Oshiage, Yasutoshi Nanyoshi
  • Patent number: 4958612
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control method for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas-ingredient concentration sensor provided in an exhaust system and generating an output proportional to the concentration of an ingredient in exhaust gases emitted from the engine. The air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to the engine is controlled to a desired air-fuel ratio corresponding to an operating condition in which the engine is operating, in a feedback manner responsive to the output of the sensor. Supply of fuel to the engine is interrupted while the engine is in a predetermined decelerating condition. The method comprises the steps of progressively decreasing the desired air-fuel ratio from a value larger than a value corresponding to the operating condition of the engine to the latter value after the engine leaves the predetermined decelerating condition, and controlling the air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the engine to the progressively decreased air-fuel ratio in the feedback manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Akira Kato, Toru Yano
  • Patent number: 4957088
    Abstract: The quantity of air induced in a cylinder of an engine is estimated by using equations based on various coefficients. The coefficients are stored in a memory and derived in accordance with engine operating conditions. The estimated quantity of induced air is corrected so as to approximate quantity of air actually induced in the cylinder. A basic injection pulse width is calculated based on the corrected air quantity. The basic injection pulse width is corrected by a feedback coefficient, thereby producing a fuel injection pulse width signal for operating a fuel injector of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hosaka
  • Patent number: 4951635
    Abstract: A fuel injection control system derives a correction coefficient for compensating overshooting component in measurement of an engine load indicative parameter, such as an intake air flow rate. The correction coefficient may be variable in such a manner that it increases according to increasing of the engine load. The correction coefficient may be used for correcting either the measured engine load parameter or the fuel injection amount derived taking the measured engine load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Japan Electronic Control Systems Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinpei Nakaniwa, Akihiko Araki, Yukio Hoshino
  • Patent number: 4949693
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device comprising an electronic control unit in which a changing rate of the amount of air fed into the engine cylinders per one revolution of the engine is calculated. The amount of fuel injected by the fuel injector is increased and decreased when the changing rate becomes positive and negative, respectively. The decrease in the amount of fuel injected by the fuel injector is prohibited even when the changing rate becomes negative until a predetermined time has elapsed after the engine is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sonoda
  • Patent number: 4944358
    Abstract: A driving wheel slip control system for a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, in which a decelerating condition of the engine is detected, a slip state of the driving wheels is detected, and the torque of the driving wheels is reduced in response to the detected slip state of the driving wheels. The torque reduction is inhibited irrespective of the detected slip state when the decelerating condition of the engine is detected. The engine is determined to be in the decelerating condition when the engine is in a region where the air-fuel ratio of a mixture being supplied to the engine is to be controlled to a value leaner than a stoichiometric ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki
    Inventors: Yoshio Wazaki, Tetsuya Oono
  • Patent number: 4938188
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus wherein an engine output can be adjusted in accordance with an allowable revolution speed of the engine at each valve timing so that while the engine can operate at a revolution speed of up to the highest allowable speed range when operating at a valve timing at which the allowable revolution in speed is high, it can nevertheless operate advantageously without experiencing damage to the timing belt and valve jump even when operated at a valve timing having a lower allowable revolution speed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasunari Seki, Isao Yahata
  • Patent number: 4938187
    Abstract: A fuel control apparatus is provided for an engine which is primarily used for a vehicle so as to permit the changing of a valve opening-closing timing and/or a valve lift amount for a valve on at least one of an intake side and an exhaust side. Accordingly, to the present invention, the fuel supply to the engine can thus be properly adjusted or corrected in each of the operation ranges with different valve timings so as to improve engine drivability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunari Seki
  • Patent number: 4934328
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ishii, Matsuo Amano, Nobuo Sato, Nobuo Kurihara
  • Patent number: 4932382
    Abstract: A fuel control system for an internal combustion engine for controlling fuel supply rate on the basis of the output signal of a vortex flowmeter having variable-frequency filter means, capable of accurately measuring intake air flow to control the fuel supply rate accurately avoiding the erroneous measurement of noises generated during the rapid deceleration of the engine in which the throttle valve is shut. The fuel supply system has operating mode detecting means for detecting the operating mode of the engine, and passband fixing means for fixing the passband of the variable-frequency filter means at a predetermined passband when the operating mode detecting means detects that the engine is in a predetermined deceleration mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanori Fujimoto, Toshiro Hara
  • Patent number: 4932376
    Abstract: A known control system for adjusting the lambda value of an internal combustion engine includes a corrective value ROM for transient operation wherein corrective values are stored for correcting the injection times for transient operation. In contrast thereto, the system according to the invention includes a corrective base value ROM 30, an adaptation value RAM 35 and an adaptation unit 34. The values from the corrective base value ROM are not utilized directly for correcting injection times; instead, these values serve as corrective base values which only become adapted corrective values by means of multiplication with adaptation values. The adaptation unit adapts the adaptation values in the adaptation value RAM. For this purpose, the adaptation unit determines the lambda value control deviations during a transient operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Linder, Martin Klenk, Winfried Moser
  • Patent number: 4932380
    Abstract: A fuel injection controller for an internal combustion engine includes a control pulse generator which generates a pulse with each rotation of the crankshaft. An operating condition discriminator determines the operating condition of the engine. An electronic control unit changes from sequential fuel injection to simultaneous fuel injection without degradation of engine performance. An ignition controller has first, and third pulse generators generating pulses with rotation of the crankshaft and camshaft, respectively, and a second pulse generator pulsing at a phase angle with respect to the crankshaft. An ignition timer controls ignition timing based on the pulses from the first and second pulse generators, and a fuel injection timer controls fuel injection based on the pulses from the first and third pulse generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Sumitaka Ogawa, Takashi Kawachi
  • Patent number: 4920941
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus comprises a load detecting means to detect a load to an engine to thereby generate a signal, a basic injection quantity operating means to operate the signal so as to obtain the pulse width of a basic fuel-injection time for a fuel injector in response to the condition of load, and a limiting means which conducts a dulling treatment to the basic fuel injection pulse width so that limitation of the fuel injection pulse width of the fuel injector in response to a value modified by the dulling treatment is determined on the basis of a limit value correction coefficient in accordance with the condition of load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Fukui, Shogo Omori, Masanobu Uchinami
  • Patent number: 4919101
    Abstract: A fuel supply control system for an internal combustion engine comprises deceleration detecting device for detecting a predetermined decelerating condition of the engine, and fuel supply decreasing device for decreasing the supply of fuel to the engine when the predetermined decelerating condition is detected by the deceleration detecting device. A first counting device starts to count a first predetermined time period when the high-load detecting device detects that the engine has left the predetermined high-load condition. An inhibiting device inhibits the fuel supply decreasing device from operating when the deceleration detecting device detects the predetermined decelerating condition of the engine before the first counting device completes counting the first predetermined time period. A second counting device counts a second predetermined time period while the high-load detecting device is detecting the predetermined high-load condition of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunio Noguchi, Masayuki Ueno, Kazushige Toshimits
  • Patent number: 4919094
    Abstract: In an engine control apparatus for controlling the amount of fuel to be supplied by calculating the amount of liquid film or fuel adhered to an intake pipe of an engine, the adhesion rate of fuel and the time constant of evaporation of fuel in a preestimating manner, the time constant of evaporation is determined on the basis of the determined amount of liquid film, the amount of suction air and an air-to-fuel ratio upon fuel cut and the adhesion rate is determined on the basis of the amount of supply of fuel, the amount of suction air and an air-to-fuel ratio upon fuel recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Manaka, Masami Shida, Teruji Sekozawa, Shinsuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4919100
    Abstract: A basic injection quantity is determined by engine speed and intake passage pressure. The pressure is estimated from engine speed and throttle position, and changing rate of the estimated pressure is calculated. A correcting quantity is obtained from the changing rate of the estimated pressure. The basic injection quantity is corrected with the correcting quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4907558
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control apparatus in which upon detection of transient state of the engine such as acceleration, deceleration or the like, the amount of fuel supply to the engine is corrected by using transient correcting coefficients which are determined previously and updated through learning procedure. The correcting coefficient is updated on the basis of the result of comparison of the air-fuel ratio detected upon occurrance of the transient state with a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Manaka, Masami Shida
  • Patent number: 4899280
    Abstract: An adaptive control system for categorized engine conditions is disclosed in which the engine conditions to be controlled are discriminated and classified in accordance with the driver's intent and the vehicle operating conditions. It is decided that a given engine control condition is continued or the transition is under way between different control conditions as a history judgement, and a vehicle operation parameter is determined in accordance with the determined history. At the same time, in accordance with the control condition decided and classified, an operating signal is applied to the engine with an operating parameter thus determined and the result of engine control response is observed to update the adaptive parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikihiko Onari, Teruji Sekozawa, Motohisa Funabashi
  • Patent number: 4897791
    Abstract: An asynchronous fuel injection control method for engines where the amount of increase of air sucked into the cylinder of the engine corresponding to the variation of the throttle angle is estimated on the basis of a physical model formula expressing the amount of the sucked air in the cylinder, and a pulse width according to which the fuel is injected by the asynchronous injection into the engine is determined on the basis of the estimated amount of increase of the sucked air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruji Sekozawa, Makoto Shioya, Motohisa Funabashi
  • Patent number: 4896644
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine having a fuel supply cut-off function which operates when the engine falls in a predetermined engine deceleration condition. When a fuel supply recovery is restarted immediately after the fuel supply cut-off, a residual quantity of fuel which remains on a wall of an intake air passage is estimated on the basis of an engine load immediately before the fuel supply cut-off is carried out, a fuel recovery increment quantity for incrementing the fuel supply to the engine at a time immediately after the fuel supply recovery is carried out is set on the basis of the estimated residual quantity of fuel and an interval of time for which the fuel supply cut-off is carried out, a basic fuel quantity determined according to an engine operating condition is corrected according to the fuel recovery increment quantity, and the corrected fuel quantity is finally supplied to the engine during the fuel supply recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Kato
  • Patent number: 4887575
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and controlling the mixture ratio of an air-fuel mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine in which the air-fuel mixture ratio is estimated from a maximum internal pressure of an engine cylinder. The estimated air-fuel mixture ratio is then positively ascertained on the basis of a determination result derived by a weighting processing calculation of input signals indicating various engine and vehicle operating conditions affecting the change in the air-fuel mixture ratio using a weight vector with a reference signal. The air-fuel mixture is controlled on the basis of the ascertained air-fuel mixture ratio. Furthermore, each parameter of the weight vector is learned and corrected in a direction toward which a correct percentage of the determination of the rich-side or lean-side air-fuel mixture ratio by the weight calculation is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4886030
    Abstract: A method for controlling fuel injection rate in internal combustion engine in accordance with the intake pressure and the engine speed. The method has the steps of determining the intake pressure using, as a variable, the period of time after a change in the throttle opening, and computing a basic fuel injection period on the basis of the thus computed intake pressure and the engine speed. The fuel injection is conducted by a system in accordance with this method. The system determines the intake pressure in the steady state of engine operation in accordance with the throttle opening and the fuel injection rate, effects a correction on the thus determined intake pressure so as to take into account a delay in response of the intake pressure to the transient period, and determines the basic fuel injection period on the basis of the corrected intake pressure and the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidehiro Oba, Senji Kato
  • Patent number: 4884548
    Abstract: A basic injection pulse width is derived from a table in accordance with speed of an engine and throttle position of a throttle valve of the engine. A time constant for providing a first order lag is calculated from variables dependent on the engine speed and the throttle position. The basic injection pulse width is corrected with the time constant, thereby producing a fuel injection pulse width signal for operating a fuel injector of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sogawa