US4907556A
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Electronic control system for internal combustion engine
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1988-10-11
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Granted: 1990-03-13
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Expires: 2008-10-11
Abstract
Abstract An electronic control system for an internal combustion engine, in which parameters necessary for the engine control are found by use of auxiliary quantities to thereby control the operating characteristic quantities of the internal combustion engine, the electronic control system comprising: a memory device for storing in advance, in the form of a two-dimensional map, a charging efficiency per se or related values of the charging efficiency corresponding to a degree of opening of the throttle valve and a number of engine revolution under the reference atmospheric condition; and a computing device for computing atmospheric pressure related values which include therein at least the atmospheric pressure value and are dependent on the atmospheric pressure, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation which takes a ratio of the charging efficiency per se or related values of the charging efficiency to be found out by selective use of signals of the intake air flow rate and a number of revolution of the internal combustion engine.
Inventors
- 👤 Shoso Ishii
- 👤 Minoru Kuriyama
- 👤 Yukinobu Nishimura
- 👤 Setsuhiro Shimomura
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 20:10
CPC Classifications
F; F02; F02D; F02D35/00; F02D41/00; F02D41/02; F02D41/18; F02D41/187; F02D41/0002; Y; Y02; Y02T; Y02T10/00; Y02T10/10; Y02T10/40
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
177 words
An electronic control system for internal combustion engine, in which parameters necessary for the engine control are found out by use of auxiliary quantities to thereby control the operating characteristic quantities of the internal combustion engine, said electronic control system comprising: memory means for storing in advance, in the form of a two-dimensional map, at least one parameter selected from the group comprising a charging efficiency per se and related values of the charging efficiency corresponding to a degree of opening of the throttle valve and a number of engine revolution under a reference atmospheric condition; and computing means for computing atmospheric pressure related values which include therein at least the atmospheric pressure value and are dependent on the atmospheric pressure, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation which takes a ratio of a parameter selected from the group comprising a charging efficiency per se and related values of the charging efficiency to be found out by selective use of signals of the intake air flow rate and a number of revolution of the internal combustion engine.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
177 words
An electronic control system for internal combustion engine, in which parameters necessary for the engine control are found out by use of auxiliary quantities to thereby control the operating characteristic quantities of the internal combustion engine, said electronic control system comprising: memory means for storing in advance, in the form of a two-dimensional map, at least one parameter selected from the group comprising a charging efficiency per se and related values of the charging efficiency corresponding to a degree of opening of the throttle valve and a number of engine revolution under a reference atmospheric condition; and computing means for computing atmospheric pressure related values which include therein at least the atmospheric pressure value and are dependent on the atmospheric pressure, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation which takes a ratio of a parameter selected from the group comprising a charging efficiency per se and related values of the charging efficiency to be found out by selective use of signals of the intake air flow rate and a number of revolution of the internal combustion engine.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
52 words
The electronic control system for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said computing means corrects the atmospheric pressure relates values in conformity to the temperature with an atmospheric temperature value from an air temperature sensor and an atmospheric temperature value which has been determined in advance under reference atmospheric conditions.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
103 words
The electronic control system for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, further comprising limiting means containing therein, as the upper limit value, a value which has been obtained by correcting, with the atmospheric pressure related values, the maximum charging efficiency which has been established beforehand in correspondence to the number of engine revolution under the reference atmospheric condition or the maximum related value of said maximum charging efficiency, with respect to an air flow rate value from the air flow sensor, at the time of finding out the intake air flow rate value of the internal combustion engine as the control parameter.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
47 words
The electronic control system for internal combustion engine according to claim 3, wherein said limiting means limits a region to be corrected with the atmospheric pressure related value within a range of the number of engine revolution which includes a reverse-flowing region of the internal combustion engine.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
The electronic control system for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said computing means computes the atmospheric pressure related values, when the operating range of the internal combustion engine is a partial range.
References Cited (Backward Citations)
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