IP Library Granted Patent US 8,484,969
Granted Patent B2
US 8,484,969 · App. 12/672,167 · Granted Jul 16, 2013

Engine

Inventors: Hideo Shiomi (Osaka, JP); Yasuhiro Ozaki (Osaka, JP); Takeshi Fujii (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,484,969
App. No.
12/672,167
Granted
Jul 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an engine such as an engine for driving a pump or dynamo, in which a load increasing state does not appear as an accelerating state of rotation speed, it is intended to prevent the smoke emission in an abruptly load-increasing state, which might otherwise be caused by the suppression or interruption of an EGR quantity. The engine 10 comprises a supercharger 11 and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device 12 . The engine 10 makes an isochronous control or a droop control, when its rotation speed N is shifted from a no-load (idle) or light-load run to a high-load (load-increasing) state. In case it is detected, when the state of the engine 10 shifts to a load state, that the actual rotation speed N becomes lower by a predetermined rotation speed ΔN than a target rotation speed Nm, an EGR valve 13 of the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device 12 is either throttled to an opening smaller by a predetermined opening ΔF than the ordinary set opening F corresponding to the load state or fully closed.

Claims (25)

1. An engine comprising:

a supercharger;

an EGR device; and

an electronic control unit,

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to execute an isochronous control so as to keep a target rotation speed the same as that at idling or executes a droop control so as to reduce the target rotation speed a predetermined percentage corresponding to a load state when rotation speed of the engine is shifted from a no-load or light-load run to a high-load state,

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control an EGR valve of the EGR device such that the EGR valve is either closed to an opening smaller than a normal set opening corresponding to a load state for a predetermined opening or fully closed when an actual rotation speed of the engine is detected to be lower than the target rotation speed,

wherein the electronic control unit is configured such that a condition for returning the opening of the EGR valve to the normal set opening corresponding to the load state is that a deficiency amount between the actual rotation speed against the target rotation speed is not larger than a predetermined amount, and

wherein the electronic control unit is configured such that passage of a predetermined time at load shift state is also adopted as a condition for returning the opening of the EGR valve to the normal set opening corresponding to the load state so that the opening of the EGR valve is returned to the normal set opening corresponding to the load state after the passage of predetermined time even if the return condition is not satisfied that the deficiency amount of the actual rotation speed against the target rotation speed is not larger than the predetermined amount.

2. An engine comprising:

a supercharger;

an EGR device; and

an electronic control unit,

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to execute an isochronous control so as to keep a target rotation speed the same as that at idling or executes a droop control so as to reduce the target rotation speed a predetermined percentage corresponding to load state when rotation speed of the engine is shifted from a no-load or light-load run to a high-load state,

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control an EGR valve of the EGR device such that the EGR valve is either closed to an opening smaller than a normal set opening corresponding to a load state for a predetermined opening or fully closed when an actual rotation speed of the engine is detected to be lower than the target rotation speed, and

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control the EGR valve of the EGR device such that the EGR valve is either closed so the opening is smaller than the normal set opening corresponding to the load state for the predetermined opening or fully closed when a difference between the actual rotation speed predetermined period before and a latest actual rotation speed is larger than a first threshold for predetermined times continuously.

3. The engine as set forth in claim 2 , wherein:

when the latest actual rotation speed is larger than a predetermined rotation speed, a throttle control of the EGR valve is not executed.

4. The engine as set forth in claim 2 , wherein:

at a judgment of a threshold, when an engine load rate at the first judgment is larger than a predetermined load rate, the throttle control of the EGR valve is not executed.

5. The engine as set forth in claim 2 , wherein:

when a difference between the target rotation speed and the latest actual rotation speed is smaller than a second threshold, the opening of the EGR valve is returned to the normal set opening corresponding to the load state.

6. The engine as set forth in claim 5 , wherein:

a release timer is actuated at a point of time of start of a throttle control of the EGR valve, and when the difference between the target rotation speed and the latest actual rotation speed is not smaller than the second threshold and a measurement time of the release timer reaches a predetermined time, the opening of the EGR valve is returned to the normal set opening corresponding to the load state.

7. The engine as set forth in claim 6 , wherein:

when the execution condition of the throttle control of the EGR valve is satisfied again, the release timer is reset and actuated again.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054162/0112 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 24, 2010
From: SHIOMI, HIDEO; OZAKI, YASUHIRO; FUJII, TAKESHI
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 023981/0834 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2007-208556 · Aug 9, 2007 · national
JP 2008-111066 · Apr 22, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110203556A1 · Aug 25, 2011