US5440922A
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Apparatus for detecting misfire in internal combustion engines for vehicles
Assignee: Denso Corp
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Filing: 1993-09-27
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Granted: 1995-08-15
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Expires: 2013-09-27
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine includes a rotational signal outputting unit for outputting a rotational signal corresponding to a rotational position of the engine, an average rotational angular speed computing unit for computing an average rotational angular speed of the engine based on the rotational signal, a deviation computing unit for computing a deviation of a computation result of the average rotational angular speed computing unit at every predetermined rotational position, and a misfire determining unit for determining occurrence of a misfire based on a pattern of the relative magnitude of three consecutive values of the deviations obtained at every predetermined rotational position. Further, the misfire determining unit may use a difference of the deviation, which is computed separately, in place of the deviation itself.
Inventors
- 👤 Akira Ichikawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 18:09
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01M; G01M15/00; G01M15/04; G01M15/11
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
144 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine, comprising: rotational signal output means for outputting a rotational signal corresponding to every predetermined rotational position of said internal combustion engine; average rotational angular speed computing means for computing an average rotational angular speed of said internal combustion engine based on said rotational signal output from said rotational signal output means; deviation computing means for computing a deviation of a computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means from an immediately previous computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means, at every predetermined rotational position; and misfire determining means for determining if a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine, based on a pattern of a relative magnitude of a plurality of consecutive ones of said deviations computed by said deviation computing means at every predetermined rotational position.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
144 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine, comprising: rotational signal output means for outputting a rotational signal corresponding to every predetermined rotational position of said internal combustion engine; average rotational angular speed computing means for computing an average rotational angular speed of said internal combustion engine based on said rotational signal output from said rotational signal output means; deviation computing means for computing a deviation of a computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means from an immediately previous computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means, at every predetermined rotational position; and misfire determining means for determining if a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine, based on a pattern of a relative magnitude of a plurality of consecutive ones of said deviations computed by said deviation computing means at every predetermined rotational position.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
90 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine as defined in claim 1, wherein said misfire determining means includes means for obtaining a difference between said relative magnitude of said plurality of consecutive ones of said deviations for every three predetermined rotational positions and for determining that a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine when three consecutive ones of said differences between said relative magnitude of said plurality of consecutive ones of said deviations vary, in order, by a decrease, an increase and a decrease.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
180 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine, comprising: rotational signal output means for outputting a rotational signal corresponding to every predetermined rotational position of said internal combustion engine; average rotational angular speed computing means for computing an average rotational angular speed of said internal combustion engine based on said rotational signal output from said rotational signal output means; deviation computing means for computing a deviation of a computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means from an immediately previous computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means, at every predetermined rotational position; deviation difference computing means for computing a difference of said deviation computed by said deviation computing means at every predetermined rotational position from a deviation computed at a previous predetermined rotational position; and misfire determining means for determining if a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine, based on a pattern of a relative magnitude of a plurality of consecutive ones of said differences of said deviation computed by said deviation difference computing means, at every predetermined rotational position.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
180 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine, comprising: rotational signal output means for outputting a rotational signal corresponding to every predetermined rotational position of said internal combustion engine; average rotational angular speed computing means for computing an average rotational angular speed of said internal combustion engine based on said rotational signal output from said rotational signal output means; deviation computing means for computing a deviation of a computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means from an immediately previous computation result of said average rotational angular speed computing means, at every predetermined rotational position; deviation difference computing means for computing a difference of said deviation computed by said deviation computing means at every predetermined rotational position from a deviation computed at a previous predetermined rotational position; and misfire determining means for determining if a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine, based on a pattern of a relative magnitude of a plurality of consecutive ones of said differences of said deviation computed by said deviation difference computing means, at every predetermined rotational position.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
105 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine as defined in claim 3, further comprising: operating condition detecting means for detecting an operating condition of said internal combustion engine, wherein said misfire determining means includes: misfire determination value obtaining means for obtaining a misfire determination value at every predetermined rotational position in accordance with said current operating condition of said internal combustion engine; and pattern determining means for determining said pattern of said relative magnitude of said consecutive ones of said differences of said deviation, based on said misfire determination values and said ones of said differences of said deviation corresponding thereto.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
64 words
An apparatus for detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine as defined in claim 4, wherein said pattern determining means includes means for determining that a misfire has occurred in said internal combustion engine when three consecutive ones of said differences of said deviation vary, in order, by a decrease, an increase and a decrease from an immediately preceding difference of said deviation.
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