EGR Flow Rate Control Apparatus of Internal Combustion Engine

• Main Authors: KATOGI KOUZOU, ICHIHARA TAKANOBU, KANETOSHI KAZUHIKO, HOSHIKA HIROAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.01.2011
• Subjects: BLASTING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TOTRANSPORTATION; COMBUSTION ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL, WITH COMBUSTIBLEMIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; WEAPONS

An EGR flow rate control apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided that can correct with high accuracy an EGR gas flow rate measured by a gas flow rate measurement apparatus in an EGR passage and control with high accuracy a gas flow rate regulating valve to reduce discharge amounts of PM and NOx in exhaust gases. An EGR flow rate control apparatus 10 of an internal combustion engine includes EGR flow channels 16, 20 that communicate exhaust pipe 11 with intake pipe 7, gas flow rate regulating valve 17 installed in EGR flow channels 26, 20 that regulates an EGR gas flow rate, and gas flow rate measurement apparatus 18 that is installed on an intake pipe 7 side with respect to the flow rate regulating valve 17 of EGR flow channels 16 and 20 and that measures an EGR gas flow rate flowing through the EGR flow channels 16 and 20. The EGR flow rate control apparatus 10 includes gas flow rate correction means 45 that corrects the EGR gas flow rate based on a first operating state parameter relating to pressure fluctuations of the intake pipe or exhaust pipe of the internal combustion engine and a second operating state parameter relating to a flow channel resistance of the EGR flow channel.