IP Library Granted Patent US 8,402,953
Granted Patent B2
US 8,402,953 · App. 12/743,118 · Granted Mar 26, 2013

Engine

Inventors: Takao Kawabe (Osaka, JP); Takashi Miyamoto (Osaka, JP); Terumitsu Takahata (Osaka, JP); Tetsuo Sakaki (Kanagawa, JP); Isamu Kawashima (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,402,953
App. No.
12/743,118
Granted
Mar 26, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

It is an object to provide an engine that makes it possible to constantly detect the number of rotations of a supercharger with a calculation load of an ECU reduced. An engine 1 is provided with an engine base 8 comprised of a plurality of cylinders and a turbocharger 7 , a crank angle sensor 4 , a turbo sensor 5 that detects rotations of the turbocharger 7 as pulses, an amplifier 11 that divides the pulses by an arbitrary division ratio and calculates the divided pulses, and an ECU 10 that judges a surge condition of the turbocharger 7 , wherein the ECU 10 sets a predetermined position of a piston of each cylinder in a crank angle of the engine base 8 to count start timing of the divided pulses, outputs the divided pulses counted from the count start timing to the number of predetermined rotations as a first output, and judges that, if a difference between the first outputs at every cylinder is more than a predetermined value, the turbocharger 7 is in the surge condition.

Claims (33)

1. An engine comprising:

an engine base having a plurality of cylinders and a supercharger;

an engine rotation speed detection means;

a supercharger rotation speed detection means that detects rotation of the supercharger as a pulse;

an operation means that divides the pulse by a dividing ratio and calculates it as a divided pulse; and

a control means that judges a surge state of the supercharger, wherein the control means:

sets a predetermined position of a piston of each of the cylinders in a crank angle of the engine as count start timing of the divided pulses,

outputs the divided pulse, which is operated based on a time for counting the divided pulse a predetermined number of times from the count start timing of the divided pulse and the predetermined number of times, as a first output, and

judges that, if a difference between the first outputs of every cylinder is not less than a predetermined value, the supercharger is in the surge state.

2. An engine comprising:

an engine base having a plurality of cylinders and a supercharger;

an engine rotation speed detection means;

a supercharger rotation speed detection means that detects rotation of the supercharger as a pulse;

an operation means that divides the pulse by a dividing ratio and calculates it as a divided pulse; and

a control means that regulates fuel injection amount, wherein the control means:

sets the divided pulse divided by a predetermined dividing ratio as a first divided pulse,

sets a predetermined position of a piston of each of the cylinders in a crank angle of the engine as count start timing of the first divided pulse,

sets the divided pulse, which is operated based on a time for counting the divided pulse a predetermined number of times from the count start timing of the divided pulse and the predetermined number of times, as a first output,

outputs as a second output a second divided pulse divided by a larger dividing ratio than the first divided pulse,

judges for each of the cylinders whether a difference between the first output and the second output makes the cylinder a fuel injection amount mismatching cylinder, and

regulates fuel injection amount of the fuel injection amount mismatching cylinder so as to make the difference not more than a predetermined value.

3. An engine comprising:

an engine base having a plurality of cylinders and a supercharger;

an engine rotation speed detection means;

a supercharger rotation speed detection means that detects rotation of the supercharger as a pulse;

an operation means that divides the pulse by a dividing ratio and calculates it as a divided pulse; and

a control means that judges whether the engine is extraordinary or not and regulates fuel injection amount so as to reduce speed of the engine when the engine is judged to be extraordinary,

wherein when the engine is judged to be extraordinary, the control means:

sets the divided pulse divided by a predetermined dividing ratio as a first divided pulse,

sets a predetermined position of a piston of each of the cylinders in a crank angle of the engine as count start timing of the first divided pulse,

sets the divided pulse, which is operated based on a time for counting the divided pulse predetermined a number of times from the count start timing of the divided pulse and the predetermined number of times, as a first output,

outputs a second divided pulse divided by larger dividing ratio than the first divided pulse as a second output, and

regulates the fuel injection amount so as to make the second output in agreement with the minimum output of the first outputs in one cycle.

Assignments (4)
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 Jun 4, 2010
From: SAKAKI, TETSUO; KAWASHIMA, ISAMU
To: APPLIED ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 024487/0492 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2010
From: KAWABE, TAKAO; MIYAMOTO, TAKASHI; TAKAHATA, TERUMITSU
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024487/0642 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2010
From: APPLIED ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024487/0691 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-301010 · Nov 20, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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