68 results about "Wide open throttle" patented technology

A gaseous-fueled reciprocating internal combustion engine includes a carburetor having a throttle valve that is controlled by a speed governor. A proportional fuel control valve is disposed intermediate a fuel supply and the carburetor, and is controlled by an air fuel computing device. The computing device generates a control signal to adjust the fuel control valve based on a governor sensed variable indicative of engine speed, sensed engine torque, a governor output signal from the governor indicative of an opening position of the throttle valve wherein 100% corresponds to a wide open throttle position, and 0% corresponds to a closed position, and a lean combustion control map containing predetermined set point values stored in memory. During operation, the control valve is responsive to the control signal generated by the computing device for adjustment of a fuel flow therethrough so as to obtain a ratio of air to fuel provided to the engine that is substantially at a lean misfire limit of the engine, thereby reducing fuel consumption, NOx emissions, and reducing exhaust gas temperatures. Alternatively, the control signal is generated using engine speed alone.

An electronically controlled electrical power generator comprises a generator (15) driven by a heat engine (11), operated by control means (19), and carrying an electrical load (22). Operation of the heat engine (11) is at wide open throttle. Control over engine operation and electrical output of the generator (15) is achieved by electronically manipulating the electric load (22), and / or adjusting excitation levels at the generator's magnetic fields, so as to change engine / generator equilibrium speed. In a beneficial embodiment, the generator (15) is powered by an energy storage unit (21), to temporarily act as a motor and rotate the engine (11) when starting, and during power absorbing strokes. A method for controlling an unthrottled engine (11) including varying the gear ratio of a transmission connected between the mechanical output of the engine (11) and a mechanical load (22), to provide a torque load to the engine (11) to cause the engine (11) to move to an equilibrium speed at which its power output substantially meets a power output requirement. In a second embodiment, variance in the impedance of an AC generator (15) connected to the engine (11) provide a torque load to the engine (11) to control its equilibrium speed.

In a power output apparatus of the present invention, a control unit sets a WOT (wide open throttle) line L2, where the maximum torque of an engine attains, as a boundary between an over drive area and an under drive area in the case where a rotor shaft of an assist motor is set in a state of over drive linkage. The control unit determines a target working point of an outer rotor shaft of a clutch motor, which functions as a drive shaft, based on an externally required output, and selects the WOT line L2 as a performance line of the engine in the case where the target working point of the outer rotor shaft is present in the under drive area. The control unit then sets a switching instruction flag, in order to change the state of linkage of the rotor shaft of the assist motor from the state of over drive linkage to a state of under drive linkage. This arrangement of the invention reduces the maximum load capacity of the assist motor and decreases the maximum electric current of an inverter circuit for driving the assist motor.

An electronically controlled electrical power generator comprises a generator driven by a heat engine, operated by control means, and carrying an electrical load. Operation of the heat engine is at wide open throttle. Control over engine operation and electrical output of the generator is achieved by electronically manipulating the electric load, and / or adjusting excitation levels at the generator's magnetic fields, so as to change engine / generator equilibrium speed. In a beneficial embodiment, the generator is powered by an energy storage unit, to temporarily act as a motor and rotate the engine when starting, and during power absorbing strokes.

A gaseous-fueled reciprocating internal combustion engine includes a carburetor having a throttle valve that is controlled by a speed governor. A proportional fuel control valve is disposed intermediate a fuel supply and the carburetor, and is controlled by an air fuel computing device. The computing device generates a control signal to adjust the fuel control valve based on a governor sensed variable indicative of engine speed, sensed engine torque, a governor output signal from the governor indicative of an opening position of the throttle valve wherein 100% corresponds to a wide open throttle position, and 0% corresponds to a closed position, and a lean combustion control map containing predetermined set point values stored in memory. During operation, the control valve is responsive to the control signal generated by the computing device for adjustment of a fuel flow therethrough so as to obtain a ratio of air to fuel provided to the engine that is substantially at a lean misfire limit of the engine, thereby reducing fuel consumption, NOx emissions, and reducing exhaust gas temperatures. Alternatively, the control signal is generated using engine speed alone.

When a throttle is fully open, a maximum torque set value is corrected based on the ratio between the maximum air volume set value under fully-open throttle conditions and the actual maximum air volume detected by an intake air volume meter such as an air flow sensor. Based on the corrected maximum torque set value, both the relation between the degree of accelerator opening and target torque and the relation between the target torque (target air volume) and the degree target throttle opening are corrected. Thus, even when various types of disturbances relating to torque error are generated, such as variations in air density generated in association with variations in temperature or altitude, variations over time such as contaminations of throttle chambers, or difference between machines such as engine bodies or auxiliary machines, it is possible to generate actual torque with respect to a target torque with a high degree of accuracy, while maintaining a desired relation between the degree of accelerator opening and the throttle opening.

A piston (10), a spring (15) operatively coupled to a piston, the spring being inside (21) or outside (41) the piston, and if the spring is inside the piston, the diameter of the spring is equal to 0.7 to 0.9, and if it is outside of the piston it is an external coil spring which is outside the cylinder which contains the piston and is able to provide a force of thousands of pounds per inch, and furthermore so that at light load the compression ratio (CR) is greater than 13 to 1 designated as CR0, at medium load has a compression ratio less then CR0 but greater than CReff, and at wide open throttle (WOT) has a CR equal to Creff, the CR is less than CR0 as would occur at medium or higher load which would lead to a flexing of the spring, and the cycle on the compression stroke is known as the HCX cycle where the pressure goes between Ppre and less than or equal to Pf.

Barometric pressure is determined in a hybrid electric vehicle from manifold absolute pressure. During engine operation, wide open throttle is commanded and output torque disturbances are offset by the electric machine. Barometric pressure is estimated based on sensed intake manifold pressure and engine speed dependent pressure offsets. During engine shut down, barometric pressure may be determined from manifold pressure without any offset adjustments.

A carburetor including a frame having a first air / fuel channel and a second air channel; and a throttle valve assembly connected to the frame and having two valve sections. Each valve section is located in a respective one of the channels. A second one of the valve sections has an air bleed hole therethrough. The second valve section is movable relative to the frame from a first idle position to a second intermediate closed position and then to a third open position at a wide open throttle (WOT). The air bleed hole allows flow through the second channel at the first idle position, but does not allow flow through the second channel when the second valve section is at the second intermediate closed position.

A carburetor having a throttle valve co-rotatable with a small diameter throttle shaft having a free end protruding from an exterior side surface of the associated carburetor body. A throttle lever detent arm is co-rotatable on and with the throttle shaft free end adjacent each body surface. Interengageable detents on the detent arm and body surface are spaced radially away from the throttle shaft rotational axis by a distance, for example, of about three times the shaft diameter. The arm and body detents are releasably engageable with one another for thereby yieldably holding the detent arm and hence the throttle shaft and associated throttle valve in any one of a plurality of selected angular settings. Hence, the angular tolerance variation on the set positions of the throttle valve blade as controlled by the detents is now, for example, approximately three times more precise so that the tolerance limits for such positions are now rendered three times tighter than otherwise would be possible when utilizing the prior art. Hence manufacturing tolerances do not need to be tightened up in order to achieve the exemplary three-fold improvement in operational tolerances of the carburetor throttle control detent mechanism. The invention thus provides a low cost throttle control detent mechanism that enables fine increment, positive stops at predetermined valve blade settings, such as the W.O.T. (wide-open throttle), idle and closed valve positions.

A device for controlling a choke valve of a carburetor for an engine, includes a choke closed state hold device for holding, in a closing position, a choke lever connected to the choke valve of a carburetor and urged by a spring in a direction for opening the choke valve, when the choke lever is turned to the closing position, the choke closed state hold device releasing the choke lever from the held state by a throttle operation of the carburetor after a start of the engine. The choke closed state hold device includes a lock arm provided continuously with a throttle lever and a locked arm provided continuously with the choke lever, the lock arm and the locked arm elastically surmounting each other when the choke lever is turned to the closing position in a state where the throttle lever is in the opening position corresponding to a full open position of the throttle valve, so that the lock arm prevents the locked arm from turning back. Thus, the choke closed state hold device is constituted only by the lock arm and the locked arm respectively provided continuously with the throttle lever and the choke lever, and there is no need for a lock lever specially supported axially on the carburetor as in the conventional arrangement. Therefore, the number of components is reduced, and the construction is simplified, so that the manufacturing cost of the choke valve control device can be reduced.

The invention discloses a diesel engine air inlet and outlet control system. The diesel engine air inlet and outlet control system comprises an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve, a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) and a throttle valve to adjust the mass air flow (MAF) flowing into an engine. The engine control system comprises a first module and a second module, wherein the first module is a working condition state monitoring module based on position signals of an accelerator pedal and is used for judging whether the engine is in an urgent acceleration condition or not, the second module is used for adopting a transient open-loop control strategy under the urgent acceleration condition or an EGR valve, VGT and throttle valve cooperative control strategy with the difference of the MAF target value and the measured value as the control input according to the judgment result of the working condition of the first module, wherein the transient open-loop control strategy can improve the air inlet system reaction speed and optimize the transient smoke exhausting, and according to the EGR valve, VGT and throttle valve cooperative control strategy, the EGR valve is taken as the principal thing, VGT flow area adjusting is taken as the secondary thing, throttle valve control is taken as the auxiliary thing, and an MAF is accurately controlled. By means of the method, the complete opening state of the throttle valve can be kept as much as possible, the throttling loss can be reduced, and the purposes of improving the fuel economy and reducing standardized workloads are achieved.

A system and method for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine include a mechanically operated exhaust gas recirculation valve having a spring-biased pintle with a surface area sized to generate a spring-opposing force to open a valve chamber entrance when an exhaust pressure differential exceeds a first threshold to allow exhaust gas to flow toward an intake and to close a valve chamber exit spaced from the chamber entrance to block exhaust gas flowing to the intake when the pressure differential exceeds a second threshold. The valve operates to limit or block external EGR flow at low load such as during starting and idle as well as at wide-open throttle while metering EGR flow for mid-to-high loads.

A method to control the full-behavior air-fuel ratio of the bimodal bursting petrol motor adopts different air-fuel ratio under the different combustion modes to control combustion: under the firing mode, the triple effect catalytic converter uses the theoretical air-fuel ratio to reduce the emission. Under the compression-ignition mode, use the lean-burn with the throttle fully opening to improve the fuel economy. In the transition zone of the two combustion modes, the throttle jaw opening is kept and the air-fuel ratio of the firing mode is little higher than the theoretical value. The laminar lean-burn is realized matching the injection strategies. The gas mixture under the compression-ignition mode is stronger than that under the firing mode with the same throttle jaw opening. The air-fuel ratio is closes to the theoretical value. This method can combine the advantages of the two combustion modes, avoid defects and realize stable combustion in the full-behavior range. Especially during the mode transmitting process, it can simplify the control strategies, improve the smoothness and avoid the abnormal combustion phenomenon of knocking and losing fire during this process.

A piston 10, a spring operatively coupled to a piston, the spring being inside 21 or outside 41 the piston, and if the spring is inside the piston, the diameter of the spring is equal to 0.7 to 0.9, and if it is outside of the piston it is an external coil spring which is outside the cylinder which contains the piston and is able to provide a force of thousands of pounds per inch, and furthermore so that at light load the compression ratio (CR) is greater than 13 to 1 designated as CR0, at medium load has a compression ratio less then CR0 but greater than CReff, and at wide open throttle (WOT) has a CR equal to Creff, the CR is less than CR0 as would occur at medium or higher load which would lead to a flexing of the spring, and the cycle on the compression stroke is known as the HCX cycle where the pressure goes between Ppre and less than or equal to Pf.

The invention relates to a hydrogen-doped inlet air and oxygen-enriched gasoline engine with EGR and a combustion control method. The device mainly comprises a gasoline engine, an EGR cooler, an EGR valve, a water electrolysis device, a hydrogen storage, an oxygen storage, a pressure control device, a hydrogen injection device and an oxygen injection device. According to the hydrogen-doped inlet air and oxygen-enriched gasoline engine, in-cylinder combustion modes of four air inlet modes including inlet air doped with hydrogen and oxygen, small-scale exhaust gas recirculation and hydrogen doping, large-scale exhaust gas recirculation and hydrogen doping and oxygen enrichment are respectively adopted in a cold start and idling condition, a medium or small load condition, a large load condition and a full load condition of the engine, so that the effects that the thermal efficiency is obviously improved and the HC and CO discharge is reduced at the cold start and idling stage of the gasoline engine can be achieved; the pumping loss of the engine is greatly reduced in the medium or small load condition, and the oil consumption and NOx discharge are greatly reduced; the engine power is obviously increased within short time when a throttle valve is fully opened. The hydrogen-doped inlet air and oxygen-enriched gasoline engine has excellent overall properties such as low emission, low oil consumption and instantaneous high power output.

A hybrid power vehicle and an operation method thereof are provided. A disconnect clutch selectively separates an electric machine from a combustion engine. If a wide open throttle or high torque command is requested and the combustion engine is shut down, a 12 volt starter may be used to start the combustion engine while disconnected from the electric machine and all of the electric machine torque available may be used for traction.

A method and system to improve fuel economy of an engine on a vehicle is offered. An electronic throttle control device is commanded to a wide open throttle position during vehicle coast down, thus improving engine breathing and reducing pumping losses, and improving engine efficiency. This includes monitoring operator inputs to: an accelerator device, a braking device, and a cruise control device, and, monitoring throttle position control input from the electronic controller to the electronically controlled throttle mechanism. The electronically controlled throttle mechanism is commanded to a substantially wide-open throttle condition only when the monitored operator inputs to the accelerator device, the braking device, and the cruise control device are each at a null position. A further limitation on the wide-open throttle command includes monitoring other inputs from the electronic controller to the throttle mechanism.

A system and method for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine include a mechanically operated exhaust gas recirculation valve having a spring-biased pintle with a surface area sized to generate a spring-opposing force to open a valve chamber entrance when an exhaust pressure differential exceeds a first threshold to allow exhaust gas to flow toward an intake and to close a valve chamber exit spaced from the chamber entrance to block exhaust gas flowing to the intake when the pressure differential exceeds a second threshold. The valve operates to limit or block external EGR flow at low load such as during starting and idle as well as at wide-open throttle while metering EGR flow for mid-to-high loads.

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve disposed in an intake passage of the engine is provided. A wide-open intake air amount, which is an intake air amount corresponding to a state where the throttle valve is fully opened, is calculated, and a theoretical intake air amount, which is an intake air amount corresponding to a state where no exhaust gas of the engine is recirculated to a combustion chamber of the engine, is calculated according to the wide-open intake air amount and the intake pressure. An air-fuel ratio correction amount and a learning value thereof are calculated according to the detected air-fuel ratio, and a reference intake air amount is calculated using the intake pressure, the engine rotational speed, the air-fuel ratio correction amount, and the learning value. A lower limit value of the detected intake air amount is set according to the reference intake air amount, and a limit process is performed for limiting the detected intake air amount within a range of values which are equal to or greater than the lower limit value. An amount of the evaporative fuel / air mixture supplied to the intake passage is calculated, and the limit-processed intake air amount is corrected using the evaporative fuel / air mixture amount to calculate an intake gas amount. An exhaust gas recirculation ratio is calculated using the theoretical intake air amount and the intake gas amount.

A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, a first planetary gear set having three rotation elements, a second planetary gear set having three rotation elements, a third planetary gear set, a first rotational shaft, a second rotational shaft, a third rotational shaft, a fourth rotational shaft, a fifth rotational shaft, a sixth rotational shaft, and a seventh rotational shaft such that the power transmission system can suppress conversion to an ENG mode by providing sufficient power performance at the time of wide open throttle (WOT) launching and maximally use power of an engine at the time of conversion to a first HEV mode and a third HEV mode.

A system for improving performance of a hybrid vehicle at higher elevations. The system includes a plurality of wheels, an engine, an altitude sensor, a transmission, a memory for storing target engine speeds, and a processor. The engine provides a torque to the plurality of wheels through the transmission, based on gear ratios limited by a wide open throttle (WOT) guard. The altitude sensor determines an elevation of the vehicle. Above a certain threshold elevation, the processor changes the WOT guard to improve performance at lower gears, such as standing start performance.

The invention relates to the technical field of fuel cell air compressor control, in particular to a fuel cell system and a control method thereof. The system comprises a fuel cell stack, an air compressor, a controller and a throttle valve arranged on an air outlet pipeline of the fuel cell stack, wherein the air compressor supplies air into the fuel cell stack through the air supply pipeline; the output end of the controller is connected with the air compressor and the throttle valve, the input end of the controller collects a corresponding signal, when a fuel cell is started, the throttle valve is controlled to be fully opened, the air compressor is started at a first set rotating speed, and when the fuel cell is required to be started for blowing, the rotating speed of the air compressor is adjusted to be a second set rotating speed after first set time; when the fuel cell is shut down, if the controller determines that blowing shut-down is needed, the throttle valve is controlledto be fully opened, and the rotating speed of the air compressor is adjusted to be a first set rotating speed value after first set time, so that the matching of the rotating speed and the back pressure of the air compressor in the starting and shutting stages is ensured, and the problem of surge of the air compressor in the starting and shutting stages is solved.

A method and system to improve fuel economy of an engine on a vehicle is offered. An electronic throttle control device is commanded to a wide open throttle position during vehicle coast down, thus improving engine breathing and reducing pumping losses, and improving engine efficiency. This includes monitoring operator inputs to: an accelerator device, a braking device, and a cruise control device, and, monitoring throttle position control input from the electronic controller to the electronically controlled throttle mechanism. The electronically controlled throttle mechanism is commanded to a substantially wide-open throttle condition only when the monitored operator inputs to the accelerator device, the braking device, and the cruise control device are each at a null position. A further limitation on the wide-open throttle command includes monitoring other inputs from the electronic controller to the throttle mechanism.

The invention provides a device and control method for achieving full throttle valve running of an internal combustion engine through hydrogen mixing and particularly relates to a lean combustion, fuel control and full throttle valve combustion technologies. A combustion information feedback device and a combustion electronic control unit are added to a system on the basis of reserving all parts of an internal combustion engine body. The combustion electronic control unit can control a throttle valve to be fully open when the internal combustion engine runs; the actual torque is the same as the target torque through the adjustment of the fuel injection pulse width; through the adjustment of the hydrogen injection pulse width, the cyclical variation of the internal combustion engine is controlled, so that the internal combustion engine can stably run in a fully open mode of the throttle valve under part of load, the throttling loss at the position of the throttle valve is eliminated, and the thermal efficiency of the internal combustion engine is effectively improved.

The invention discloses a control system of an electronic throttle valve of an exhaust gas turbocharged engine. The control system of the electronic throttle valve of the exhaust gas turbocharged engine is characterized by comprising a throttle valve controller, the throttle valve controller has a throttle valve normal control mode, a throttle valve full-open control mode and a throttle valve anti-overshoot control mode, wherein the effective area of the throttle valve is the effective area of a target throttle valve under the throttle valve normal control mode; the effective area of the throttle valve is the maximum opening area of the target throttle valve under the throttle valve full-opening control mode, and the change rate of the effective area of the target throttle valve is the maximum change rate allowed by the throttle valve when the throttle valve is fully opened; and the effective area of the throttle valve is the corrected value of the effective area of the target throttlevalve under the throttle valve anti-overshoot control mode. According to the control system and method of the electronic throttle valve of the exhaust gas turbocharged engine, the stability of the target air inlet pressure in an air inlet system is ensured, so that the stability of the dynamic property of a vehicle is ensured.

A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, a first planetary gear set having three rotation elements, a second planetary gear set having three rotation elements, a third planetary gear set, a first rotational shaft, a second rotational shaft, a third rotational shaft, a fourth rotational shaft, a fifth rotational shaft, a sixth rotational shaft, and a seventh rotational shaft such that the power transmission system can suppress conversion to an ENG mode by providing sufficient power performance at the time of wide open throttle (WOT) launching and maximally use power of an engine at the time of conversion to a first HEV mode and a third HEV mode.

The invention discloses a starting control method for hydrogen fuel engines, which is characterized in that a camshaft fluted disc adopted in the method comprises two wide teeth and two narrow teeth, the two wide teeth are adjacently arranged, and the two narrow teeth are also adjacently arranged, and a camshaft angle corresponding to the sum of the width of each tooth and the width of a tooth gap is 90 degrees; when the rotating speed is less than 50 turns / minute, operations of hydrogen spraying and ignition setting and throttle operations are not performed; when the rotating speed is 50-150turns / minute, the operations of hydrogen spraying and ignition setting are still not performed, but when detecting that the rotating speed is greater than 50 turns / minute, the first eight turns of throttles of an engine are immediately controlled to be completely opened, and then closed; when the rotating speed is 150-400 turns / minute, the operations of hydrogen spraying and ignition setting are realized by using crankshaft signals; when the rotating speed is greater than 400 turns / minute, a crankshaft phase is determined according to the crankshaft signals, and then the operations of hydrogen spraying and ignition setting are performed according to the crankshaft phase; and when the rotating speed is greater than 1000 turns / minute, the starting operation is completed, and then the engineis in an idle state. By using the starting control method disclosed by the invention, the control accuracy of the first half phase of a starting operation can be ensured.