Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100018186 | FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR PM TRAPPER - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables detection of a fault of a PM trapper with improved accuracy. In the present invention, a pressure sensor | 01-28-2010 |
20100154387 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION DEVICE FOR REDUCTANT ADDITION VALVE - An addition valve is instructed to add a reductant (step | 06-24-2010 |
20100186491 | ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE FOR AIR-FUEL RATIO SENSOR - An abnormality diagnosis device according to the present invention can calculate a calculation air-fuel ratio A/Fk based upon a fuel injection quantity and an intake air quantity, and determine the abnormality of the air-fuel ratio sensor based upon the calculation air-fuel ratio and an actual air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor, when an operating condition in the internal combustion engine relatively rapidly changes according to an engine operating demand and thereby the calculation air-fuel ratio relatively rapidly changes. Since the air-fuel ratio is not forcibly changed and fluctuated, deterioration of the exhaust emission and the combustion state, and deterioration of the vibration and the noise at abnormality diagnosing can be certainly prevented. | 07-29-2010 |
20100199754 | MALFUNCTION DIAGNOSIS DEVICE FOR EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM AND MALFUNCTION DIAGNOSIS METHOD THEREFOR - In a malfunction diagnosis device for an exhaust gas purification system including an exhaust gas purification catalyst disposed in the exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, and a reductant supply device that supplies reductant to exhaust gas that flows in an upstream side of the exhaust gas purification catalyst, the degree of degradation of the exhaust gas purification catalyst is diagnosed by comparing the timing at which the bed temperature of the exhaust gas purification catalyst starts to rise due to the heat of moisture adsorption reaction, against a normal value. | 08-12-2010 |
20100257922 | ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR NOx CATALYST - An abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an NOx catalyst of the present invention measures an index value (R) regarding an NOx clarification capacity of an NOx catalyst and determines an abnormality of the NOx catalyst based on index values (R | 10-14-2010 |
20100319318 | DEGRADATION DIAGNOSIS DEVICE FOR CATALYST - A temperature increasing degree of the catalytic outflow exhaust temperature at the time the exhaust air-fuel ratio is changed to the rich side is found in respect to each of a plurality of the catalytic inflow exhaust temperatures. A grade (S) of the temperature increasing degree is found based upon the inflow exhaust temperature and the temperature increasing degree to determine degradation of the catalyst based upon at least one of a maximum value (Smax) of the grade and the inflow exhaust temperature (Tinmax) corresponding to the maximum value. An accurate catalyst degradation diagnosis can be carried out since not only the temperature increasing degree but also the inflow exhaust temperature are taken into account. | 12-23-2010 |
20110000290 | ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR NOx SENSOR - An exhaust passage ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110126517 | CATALYST DETERIORATION DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A catalyst deterioration diagnosis system performs a diagnosis of deterioration of the oxidation catalyst based on a high-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature and a low-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature. The high-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor while the temperature of the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst is in a high temperature region H while the reducing agent is supplied from the reducing agent supply means into the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst. The low-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature is a temperature detected by the temperature sensor while the temperature of the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst is in a low temperature region L while the reducing agent is supplied from a reducing agent supply means into the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst. | 06-02-2011 |
20110265461 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS FOR EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD FOR EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS - It is determined quickly whether there is a shortage in reducing agent supplied to an NOx selective reduction catalyst. After it is determined that a quantity of reducing agent equal to or larger than a predetermined quantity is absorbed in the NOx selective reduction catalyst on the assumption that there is no abnormality in reducing agent supply unit, the supply of a quantity of reducing agent needed to reduce a quantity of NOx flowing into the NOx selective reduction catalyst is started. A determination of an abnormality in the reducing agent supply unit is made based on the NOx removal rate after the lapse of a predetermined period of time since the start of the supply of reducing agent. The NOx removal rate becomes lower when there is an abnormality in the reducing agent supply unit. | 11-03-2011 |
20110314792 | ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING ABNORMALITY IN FILTER REGENERATION SYSTEM - The invention intends to provide a technology which makes it possible to diagnose with higher accuracy whether or not abnormality occurs in a filter regeneration system causing excessive execution frequency of a regeneration process. The filter regeneration system initiates execution of the regeneration process, incase an estimated particulate matter (PM) accumulation amount at the filter reaches a pre-determined regeneration requiring accumulation amount; or in case the pressure upstream of the filter or the differential pressure across the filter reaches a pre-determined regeneration requiring value, the value being larger than the pressure or the differential pressure corresponding to the regeneration requiring accumulation amount. Then, the diagnosis is carried out based on a ratio of an estimated PM accumulation amount at the initiation of the execution of the regeneration process to the regeneration requiring accumulation amount. | 12-29-2011 |
20120006002 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING DETERIORATION OF CATALYST AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DETERIORATION OF CATALYST - The degree of deterioration of a catalyst is obtained accurately in cases where a plurality of catalysts is disposed at an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. Under the assumption that the degree of deterioration of a catalyst which is disposed at a location upstream of an NO | 01-12-2012 |
20130014641 | FAILURE DETECTION APPARATUS AND FAILURE DETECTION METHOD FOR A PARTICULATE FILTERAANM Takaoka; KazuyaAACI Susono-shiAACO JPAAGP Takaoka; Kazuya Susono-shi JPAANM Shibata; DaisukeAACI Numazu-shiAACO JPAAGP Shibata; Daisuke Numazu-shi JPAANM Sawada; HiroshiAACI Gotenba-shiAACO JPAAGP Sawada; Hiroshi Gotenba-shi JPAANM Kidokoro; ToruAACI Hadano-shiAACO JPAAGP Kidokoro; Toru Hadano-shi JP - The present invention is intended to detect a failure of a PM filter with a higher degree of accuracy. The present invention is provided with: a PM trapping efficiency calculation part to calculate a PM trapping efficiency (which is a proportion of an amount of particulate matter trapped with respect to an amount of inflow particulate matter) based on an amount of inflow particulate matter obtained by an inflow particulate matter obtaining part, and an amount of outflow particulate matter detected by a PM sensor; and a failure detection part to make a determination that a failure has occurred in the PM filter, in cases where there has appeared a tendency for the PM trapping efficiency to decrease during a period of time until the execution of the following filter regeneration processing is started after the completion of execution of the filter regeneration processing. | 01-17-2013 |
20130098146 | CATALYST DETERIORATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND CATALYST DETERIORATION DETECTION METHOD FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provision is made for a catalyst that is arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and has an oxidation function, downstream side temperature detection means that detects the temperature of an exhaust gas at a downstream side from the catalyst, and addition means that adds a reducing agent into the exhaust gas from an upstream side from the catalyst, wherein there are also provided correlation value calculation means that calculates a correlation value which is correlated with an amount of change of the temperature detected by the downstream side temperature detection means when the reducing agent is added by the addition means and when a transient operation of the internal combustion engine is carried out, and determination means that determines a deterioration of the catalyst by making a comparison between the correlation value and a threshold value which indicates the deterioration of the catalyst. | 04-25-2013 |
20130192208 | FILTER FAILURE DETECTION APPARATUS OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A failure of a filter is detected with a higher degree of accuracy. There are provided a filter that is arranged on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine for collecting a substance contained in an exhaust gas, a substance amount detection part that is arranged on the exhaust passage at a downstream side of the filter for detecting an amount of substance in the exhaust gas, a flow speed detection part that detects or estimates a flow speed of the exhaust gas which passes through the filter, and a determination part that makes a determination that the filter is in a failure, when the higher the flow speed of the exhaust gas passing through the filter, the larger a ratio of an amount of change in the amount of substance to an amount of change in the flow speed of the exhaust gas becomes. | 08-01-2013 |
20130213236 | FAILURE DETECTING APPARATUS FOR PARTICULATE FILTER - An object of the present invention is to detect any breakdown or failure of a particulate filter more appropriately. A failure detecting apparatus for detecting failure of a particulate filter according to the present invention comprises an acquiring section which acquires an amount of PM contained in an exhaust gas allowed to outflow from the particulate filter; a regeneration process executing section which executes a filter regeneration process for oxidizing and removing PM deposited in the particulate filter; and a failure judging section which judges that the particulate filter is in the failure state if a decreased amount of the amount of PM contained in the exhaust gas acquired by the acquiring section, during a predetermined period of time as started from a point in time at which the execution of the filter regeneration process performed by the regeneration process executing section is completed, is not equal to or larger than a predetermined reference amount. | 08-22-2013 |
20140050623 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DETERIORATION OF NOX SELECTIVE REDUCTION CATALYST - Apparatus for detecting deterioration of an NOx selective reduction catalyst in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine with improved accuracy, includes an NOx purification rate calculation unit for calculating the NOx purification rate in the NOx selective reduction catalyst based on the NOx concentration in the exhaust gas flowing into and out of the NOx selective reduction catalyst. A determination as to whether the NOx selective reduction catalyst is deteriorated is made based on the NOx purification rate at a time when the temperature of the NOx selective reduction catalyst is equal to or higher than a temperature (Tc | 02-20-2014 |
20140199210 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A reduction in the accuracy of a failure determination of a filter due to a reduction in the detection accuracy of a PM sensor is suppressed. In order to achieve this, provision is made for a filter, an NOx selective reduction catalyst at the downstream side of the filter, a supply device for supplying a reducing agent to the NOx selective reduction catalyst, a PM sensor for detecting an amount of particulate matter in an exhaust gas at the downstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, and a supply decrease part that makes an amount of supply of the reducing agent smaller in cases where at least one of the following conditions is satisfied than in cases where any of the conditions is not satisfied, wherein the conditions include: a condition in which the temperature of the NOx selective reduction catalyst is equal to or less than a threshold value; a condition in which the temperature of the exhaust gas is equal to or less than a threshold value; a condition in which the flow rate of the exhaust gas is equal to or larger than a threshold value; and a condition in which the amount of adsorption of the reducing agent in the NOx selective reduction catalyst is equal to or larger than a threshold value. | 07-17-2014 |
20140216020 | WARM-UP SYSTEM FOR EXHAUST SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An object of the invention is to prevent a situation in which failure diagnosis for an exhaust system component in an internal combustion engine cannot be completed from continuing for an unduly long period of time. A warm-up system for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine according to the invention includes a warm-up control performing unit that performs warm-up control for warming up an exhaust system component upon start-up of the internal combustion engine and a failure diagnosis performing unit that performs failure diagnosis for the exhaust system component after the completion of warm-up of the exhaust system component. If a situation in which the operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped after the start of operation of the internal combustion engine before the completion of the failure diagnosis for the exhaust system component performed by the failure diagnosis performing unit has been repeated for a predetermined period of time, the warm-up control performing unit changes the warm-up control performed upon start-up of the internal combustion engine after the predetermined period of time has elapsed to a control that can raise the temperature of the exhaust system component more quickly than the warm-up control performed during the aforementioned predetermined period. | 08-07-2014 |
20140230415 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A reduction in the accuracy of a failure determination of a filter due to a reduction in the detection accuracy of a PM sensor is suppressed. To this end, provision is made for an NOx selective reduction catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine to reduce NOx by means of a reducing agent supplied thereto, a supply device to supply urea water as the reducing agent from an upstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, a PM sensor to detect an amount of particulate matter in an exhaust gas at the downstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, and a control unit to make an amount of production of intermediate products from the urea water supplied from the supply device to ammonia smaller when an amount of particulate matter is detected by the PM sensor than when not detected. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234174 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A reduction in the accuracy of a failure determination of a filter due to a reduction in the detection accuracy of a PM sensor is suppressed. In order to achieve this, provision is made for a filter that is arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine for trapping particulate matter contained in an exhaust gas, an NOx selective reduction catalyst that is arranged at the downstream side of the filter and reduces NOx by means of a reducing agent which is supplied thereto, a supply device that supplies the reducing agent to the NOx selective reduction catalyst from the upstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, a PM sensor that detects an amount of the particulate matter in the exhaust gas at the downstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, and a prohibition part that prohibits the use of a detected value of the PM sensor in cases where the reducing agent supplied from said supply device passes through the NOx selective reduction catalyst. | 08-21-2014 |