Failure detection apparatus for a particulate filter includes: a sensor having a particulate matter detection unit that outputs a signal corresponding to the amount of accumulated PM, and a heater unit that heats the particulate matter detection unit; a regeneration control unit that causes the heater unit to heat the particulate matter detection unit to a regeneration temperature allowing the particulate matter to be burned off; a start detection unit that determines the start of the internal combustion engine; failure determination unit that determines whether exhaust gas contains water droplets while the engine is in operation; a heating control unit that causes the heater unit to heat the particulate matter detection unit to a first temperature allowing the accumulated particulate matter to remain and the moisture included in the particulate matter to be removed; and failure determination unit that determines whether the filter has failure based on a sensor output value.

A method for programming an internal combustion engine control unit includes operating a test internal combustion engine at a first speed and a first torque while simulating a condition of the test internal combustion engine by restricting a flow of air to the test internal combustion engine to simulate altitude variations of the test internal combustion engine or elevating a temperature of the flow of air to simulate ambient temperature variations of the test internal combustion engine. The method also includes measuring engine performance information while operating the test internal combustion engine at the first speed and first torque and while simulating the condition of the test internal combustion engine, and programming the internal combustion engine control unit by storing the measured engine performance information in a memory associated with the internal combustion engine control unit.

An abnormality detection device, method, or a storage medium acquires learning target data and monitoring target data, generates a state observer by using a variable in an input variable configuration, generates a threshold, calculates an abnormality degree by combining a second state observation value and the monitoring target data and inputting a combined result to the competitive neural network, and calculates a determination result.

An electronic control unit includes a microcomputer configured to be started by a plurality of starting factors, in which different operation modes are associated with each of the starting factors, and a resource is associated with each of the operation modes. The microcomputer identifies a starting factor in an initialization process started by the starting factor, and selects and executes an operation mode associated with the starting factor identified. When another starting factor is generated during execution of the operation mode, the microcomputer stops execution of the operation mode and restarts, and then executes an operation mode associated with the other starting factor.

A particulate matter detecting apparatus (S) comprises a sensor body (S1) which has a sensor device (1) which is retained in a housing (H) secured to an exhaust pipe (101) of an internal combustion engine (ENG) and detects particulate matter contained in exhaust gas, a sensor temperature determining unit (2) which works to determine a temperature of the sensor device, and a mounted condition diagnosis unit (3) which diagnoses a mounted condition where the sensor body is mounted in the exhaust pipe. The mounted condition diagnosis unit includes a diagnosis threshold setting unit (31) and a mount error determining unit (32). The diagnosis threshold setting unit determines a diagnosis threshold (Tth), as used in a diagnosis of the mounted condition, as a function of an operating condition of the internal combustion engine to have a temperature value lower than a temperature of the sensor device when the sensor body is normally mounted in the exhaust pipe. When a sensor temperature (T), as determined by the sensor temperature determining unit, is lower than the diagnosis threshold, the mount error determining unit determines that an error in the mounted condition is occurring.

A control apparatus for a motor generator that is connected to an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus estimates an estimated torque pulsation that is an estimation value of torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine. The control apparatus controls the motor generator to reduce generated power and suppress decrease in a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, when a negative torque that obstructs rotation of the internal combustion engine is generated in the estimated torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine.

A control apparatus for a motor generator that is connected to an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus estimates an estimated torque pulsation that is an estimation value of torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine. The control apparatus controls the motor generator to reduce generated power and suppress decrease in a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, when a negative torque that obstructs rotation of the internal combustion engine is generated in the estimated torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine.

There is provided a technology capable of synchronizing a plurality of timers with a simple circuit configuration in an electronic control unit that controls a vehicle. An electronic control unit according to the present invention concatenates a second timer value as the most significant bit of a first timer value reset by a synchronization signal, and counts up the second timer value by the synchronization signal.

A catalyst warm-up control method for a hybrid vehicle includes a battery supplying electric power to an electric motor, the battery is charged by an engine for electric power generation, and exhaust gas discharged from the engine 1 is treated by a catalyst. By the catalyst warm-up control method, when temperature of the catalyst is lower than required warm-up temperature for activating the catalyst, target revolution speed and target torque of the engine are controlled based on a state of charge of the battery, and, when target revolution speed is lower than lower-limit revolution speed at which the catalyst can be heated to the required warm-up temperature, the target revolution speed is controlled so as to be required warm-up revolution speed that is equal to or higher than the lower-limit revolution speed.

An engine control apparatus includes an ignition control section and an injection control section. When partial compression ignition combustion is carried out, the ignition control section causes an ignition plug to carry out: main ignition in which a spark is generated in a late period of a compression stroke or an initial period of a expansion stroke to initiate the SI combustion; and preceding ignition in which the spark is generated at earlier timing than the main ignition. Also, when the partial compression ignition combustion is carried out, the injection control section causes the injector to inject fuel at such timing that the fuel exists in a cylinder at an earlier time point than the preceding ignition. Energy of the preceding ignition is set to be lower when an in-cylinder temperature specified by an in-cylinder temperature specification section is high than when the in-cylinder temperature is low.