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Control system for diesel engine during cold-engine warm-up

US6273056A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 3, 1998
Grant dateAug 14, 2001
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T10/40
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A diesel engine comprises a combustion-temperature control device for adjusting a combustion temperature of the engine depending on an engine operating condition, and an ignition-delay-duration control device for adjusting an ignition delay duration depending on the engine operating condition. An engine-temperature sensor is provided for detecting an engine temperature. During cold-engine warm-up period, an electronic control unit effectively compensates for both the combustion temperature and the ignition delay duration depending on the engine temperature, to reconcile the slow initial combustion in the early combustion stage and the sharp combustion in the middle or later combustion stage and so as to realize a so-called low-temperature premixed combustion with an increased rate of premixed combustion to diffusion combustion under a condition of low combustion temperatures.

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