IP Library Granted Patent US 10,738,687
Granted Patent B2
US 10,738,687 · App. 16/315,984 · Granted Aug 11, 2020

Engine

Inventors: Taishi Murakami (Osaka, JP); Masayoshi Doui (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,738,687
App. No.
16/315,984
Granted
Aug 11, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An engine including an exhaust bypass valve and an intake bypass valve. The exhaust bypass valve is disposed in an exhaust bypass channel connecting an outlet of an exhaust manifold and an exhaust outlet of a turbocharger to each other. The intake bypass valve is disposed in an intake bypass channel connecting an inlet of an intake manifold and an inlet of the turbocharger. An intake pressure sensor detects a pressure of the intake manifold. If an instruction value indicating an upper limit or a lower limit of the valve opening degree of the intake bypass valve is continuously output for a predetermined time or more, an engine control device determines that an abnormality occurs in at least one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve.

Claims (15)

1. An engine comprising:

an intake manifold configured to supply air into a cylinder;

an exhaust manifold configured to emit exhaust gas from a cylinder;

a turbocharger configured to compress air with exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold;

an exhaust bypass valve disposed in an exhaust bypass channel connecting an outlet of the exhaust manifold and an exhaust outlet of the turbocharger to each other;

an intake bypass valve disposed in an intake bypass channel connecting an inlet of the intake manifold and an inlet of the turbocharger to each other;

an intake pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure of the intake manifold; and

a control device configured to perform feedback control by outputting an instruction value of a valve opening degree of at least one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve such that a pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor approaches a set target pressure of the intake manifold, wherein

the control device is configured to perform feedback control on one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve, and

if an instruction value indicating an upper limit or a lower limit of the valve opening degree is continuously output for a predetermined time or more with respect to the exhaust bypass valve or the intake bypass valve as a target of the feedback control, the control device is capable of determining that an abnormality occurs in one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve on which the feedback control is not performed.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , comprising:

a gas injector configured to inject gas fuel to air supplied from the intake manifold and mix the gas fuel with the air; and

a fuel injection valve configured to inject liquid fuel to the cylinder, wherein

the engine is configured to be driven while being switched between a premixed combustion mode in which the gas fuel injected from the gas injector and mixed with air is caused to flow into a combustion chamber of the cylinder and a diffusion combustion mode in which combustion occurs by injection of the liquid fuel by the fuel injection valve into the combustion chamber, and

in a case where it is determined that no abnormality occurs in one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve on which the feedback control is performed during driving in the premixed combustion mode, if an abnormality occurs in one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve on which the feedback control is not performed, the control device switches from the premixed combustion mode to the diffusion combustion mode.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 28, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053069/0406 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2019
From: MURAKAMI, TAISHI; DOUI, MASAYOSHI
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 048504/0961 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-137650 · Jul 12, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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