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Evaporative fuel processing device

US11326531B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 26, 2021
Grant dateMay 10, 2022
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Expiry dateFeb 26, 2041

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01D2259/4516
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A purge control unit opens the purge control valve to supply, as purge gas to an intake passage, the evaporative fuel together with air in response to a predetermined purge request. An air-fuel ratio detection unit detects an air-fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine. A concentration learning unit estimates a fuel concentration in the purge gas based on a change in the air-fuel ratio when the purge control unit causes the purge gas to be supplied to the intake passage and to perform a fuel concentration learning to update a concentration learning value, which is a learning value of the fuel concentration in the purge gas, based on the estimated fuel concentration. An injection control unit corrects a fuel injection amount based on the concentration learning value in a period in which the concentration learning unit performs the fuel concentration learning in the lean combustion operation.

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