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Exhaust gas purifying device for engine
Assignee: Toyota Motor Corp
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Filing: 1997-09-08
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Granted: 1999-03-23
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Expires: 2017-09-08
Abstract
Abstract An exhaust gas purifying device, for an engine performing a lean operation and having an EGR system capable of controlling an EGR ratio, comprises a NO X catalyst arranged in the exhaust passage capable of selectively reducing NO X in the inflowing exhaust gas, in the oxidizing atmosphere including a reducing agent, and a reducing agent injector arranged in the exhaust passage of the engine for secondarily supplying a reducing agent to the exhaust passage upstream of the NO X catalyst. The EGR system has an EGR passage connecting the exhaust passage and the intake passage of the engine, an EGR control valve arranged in the EGR passage, and an intake air control valve arranged in the intake passage upstream of an inlet of the EGR passage. The openings of the EGR control valve and the intake air control valve are controlled to control the temperature of the exhaust gas to make the temperature of the NO X catalyst within the optimum temperature range or equal to the optimum temperature. The amount of the reducing agent injected by the reducing agent injector is made smaller as the EGR ratio becomes higher.
Inventors
- 👤 Shinya Hirota
- 👤 Tatsuji Mizuno
- 👤 Kazuya Kibe
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 16:26
CPC Classifications
F; F01; F01N; F01N3/00; F01N3/08; F01N3/10; F01N3/18; F01N3/20; F01N3/206; F01N3/2066; B; B01; B01D; B01D53/00; B01D53/34; B01D53/92; B01D53/94; B01D53/9404; B01D53/9409; B01D53/9431; B01D53/9495; F02; F02D; F02D21/00; F02D21/06; F02D21/08; F02D35/00; F02D35/0015; F02D35/0046; F02D35/0092; F02D41/00; F02D41/0025; F02D41/0047; F02D41/005; F02D41/0052; B01D2251/00; B01D2251/20; B01D2251/208; B01D53/9413; B01D53/9418; F01N2610/00; F01N2610/03; F02D2200/00; F02D2200/02; F02D2200/08; F02D2200/0802; F02D41/0055; F02D41/02; F02D41/021; F02D41/0235; F02D41/027; F02D41/0275; Y; Y02; Y02T; Y02T10/00; Y02T10/10; Y02T10/12; Y02T10/40
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
148 words
An exhaust gas purifying device for an engine having a combustion chamber, an intake passage, an exhaust passage, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for supplying an EGR gas to the engine, the EGR system being capable of controlling an EGR ratio; the engine performing a lean operation, the device comprising: a NO X catalyst arranged in the exhaust passage capable of selectively reducing NO X in the inflowing exhaust gas in an oxidizing atmosphere including a reducing agent; reducing agent supplying means for secondarily supplying a reducing agent to the exhaust passage upstream of the NO X catalyst or to the combustion chamber; and reducing agent amount control means for controlling the amount of the reducing agent to be supplied by the reducing agent supplying means in accordance with the EGR ratio, wherein NO X is reduced, by the reducing agent, on the NO X catalyst.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
148 words
An exhaust gas purifying device for an engine having a combustion chamber, an intake passage, an exhaust passage, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for supplying an EGR gas to the engine, the EGR system being capable of controlling an EGR ratio; the engine performing a lean operation, the device comprising: a NO X catalyst arranged in the exhaust passage capable of selectively reducing NO X in the inflowing exhaust gas in an oxidizing atmosphere including a reducing agent; reducing agent supplying means for secondarily supplying a reducing agent to the exhaust passage upstream of the NO X catalyst or to the combustion chamber; and reducing agent amount control means for controlling the amount of the reducing agent to be supplied by the reducing agent supplying means in accordance with the EGR ratio, wherein NO X is reduced, by the reducing agent, on the NO X catalyst.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
80 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, further comprising detecting means for detecting a temperature of the NO X catalyst, and EGR ratio control means for feedback controlling the EGR system on the basis of the detected temperature of the NO X catalyst to control the EGR ratio to control the temperature of the exhaust gas to make the temperature of the NO X catalyst within a predetermined target temperature range or equal to a predetermined target temperature.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
168 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 2, wherein the EGR ratio control means comprises basic EGR ratio calculating means for calculating a basic EGR ratio in accordance with the engine operating condition, EGR ratio correcting means for correcting the basic EGR ratio on the basis of the detected temperature of the NO X catalyst to make the temperature of the NO X catalyst within the target temperature range or equal to the target temperature, using a feedback correction coefficient, and wherein the reducing agent amount control means comprises reference EGR ratio calculating means for calculating a reference EGR in accordance with the engine operating condition, basic reducing agent amount calculating means for calculating a basic amount of the reducing agent on the basis of the reference EGR ratio, and reducing agent amount correcting means for correcting the basic amount of the reducing agent on the basis of the difference between the reference EGR ratio and the corrected EGR ratio corrected by the EGR ratio correcting means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
49 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 3, wherein the reference EGR ratio is the basic EGR ratio, and wherein the reducing agent amount correcting means corrects the basic amount of the reducing agent on the basis of the feedback correction coefficient of the EGR ratio correcting means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 3, wherein the EGR ratio is corrected to be increased when the temperature of the NO X catalyst is lower than the target temperature range or the target temperature, and is corrected to be decreased when the temperature of the NO X catalyst is higher than the target temperature range or the target temperature.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 5, wherein the amount of the reducing agent to be fed by the reducing agent supplying means becomes smaller as the corrected EGR ratio becomes larger.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
40 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 2, wherein the NO X catalyst has a NO X purification efficiency higher than a minimum acceptable efficiency when the temperature of the NO X catalyst is within the target temperature range.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
34 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 2, wherein the NO X catalyst has a maximum NO X purification efficiency when the temperature of the NO X catalyst equals to the target temperature.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
54 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the EGR system has an EGR passage connecting the exhaust passage and the intake passage to each other, and an EGR control valve arranged in the EGR passage, and wherein the opening of the EGR control valve is controlled to control the EGR ratio.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
61 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the EGR system has an inlet of the EGR gas arranged in the intake passage, and an intake air control valve arranged in the intake passage upstream of the inlet of the EGR gas, and wherein the opening of the intake air control valve is controlled to control the EGR ratio.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
26 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the NO X catalyst comprises a transition metal or a precious metal carried on a carrier.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
40 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the reducing agent supplying means comprises a reducing agent injector arranged in the exhaust passage upstream of the NO X catalyst for injecting the reducing agent into the exhaust passage.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
20 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the reducing agent is the fuel used in the engine.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
76 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 13, wherein the engine has a fuel injector arranged in the combustion chamber capable of performing a plurality of fuel injections in one cycle of the engine, wherein the reducing agent supplying means controls the fuel injector to inject fuel as the reducing agent in the last half of the combustion stroke or the exhaust stroke of the engine, to supply the reducing agent to the combustion chamber.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
81 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, further comprising determining means for determining whether a NO X purification efficiency of the NO X catalyst is higher than a minimum acceptable efficiency, wherein the supplying of the reducing agent is performed when the NO X purification efficiency of the NO X catalyst is higher than the minimum acceptable efficiency, and is stopped when the NO X purification efficiency of the NO X catalyst is lower than the minimum acceptable efficiency.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
33 words
An exhaust gas purifying device according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the reducing agent to be fed by the reducing agent supplying means becomes smaller as the EGR ratio becomes larger.
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