Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders operable by a valve actuation mechanism. A cylinder deactivation operation is modified in response to determining a cyclical operation mode of the engine.

A standby generator includes an internal combustion engine, an alternator, and a controller. The internal combustion engine includes an engine housing, an engine block, and a crankshaft. The engine housing at least partially covers the engine block. The engine block includes a cylinder. The crankshaft is configured to rotate about a vertical crankshaft axis in response to movement by the cylinder. The alternator includes a stator, as well as a rotor that is configured to rotate with the rotation of the crankshaft to produce electrical power. The controller includes an inverter that is configured to receive electrical power from the alternator and output alternating current electrical power. The controller extends at least partially above the engine housing.

Methods, systems, and devices for managing motor torque smoothing for internal combustion engine cylinder recharging events are described herein. An engine controller in a vehicle for managing motor torque smoothing for internal combustion engine cylinder recharging events may be configured to operate the internal combustion engine at a firing fraction that is less than a value of 1.0, wherein one or more cylinders are not designated to be fired, determine a recharge event time period where a particular one of the cylinders that have not been designated to be fired is recharged, identify a disruption quantity of torque during the recharging event time period, and actuate an additional motor to initiate a supplemental quantity of torque during the recharge event time period based on the disruption quantity of torque.

A controller for a dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (D-EGR) engine is disclosed. The controller may receive a plurality of cylinder pressure signals, each of which is associated with a respective cylinder in a plurality of cylinders of the D-EGR engine. The plurality of cylinders includes at least one donor cylinder and a set of non-donor cylinders. The controller may receive a crankshaft angle signal associated with a crankshaft of the D-EGR engine. The controller may selectively adjust ignition timing of a cylinder, of the plurality of cylinders, based on the crankshaft angle signal and a cylinder pressure signal, of the plurality of cylinder pressure signals, associated with the cylinder; or a fuel rate of the at least one donor cylinder based on the crankshaft angle signal and a set of cylinder pressure signals, of the plurality of cylinder pressure signals, associated with the set of non-donor cylinders.

When a temperature increasing process is performed, a CPU sets a target temperature of a catalyst to be lower when a coolant temperature is low than when the coolant temperature is high. The CPU decreases an increase coefficient of fuel in the temperature increasing process when a value obtained by subtracting an estimated value of a temperature of the catalyst from the target temperature is equal to or less than a first prescribed value.

The invention relates to a method to heat exhaust gases to a selected specific temperature by fuel injection control in an internal combustion engine (112), which engine comprises a control unit (115) registering the currently requested load and determining a required fuel amount in response to the requested load. The method involves registering low load operation of the internal combustion engine; registering an input from at least one exhaust after-treatment system (121) sensor indicating a detected condition; determining an exhaust temperature requirement for the detected condition and calculating a target exhaust temperature; selecting a group of cylinders to be regulated for achieving the target exhaust temperature; calculating a ratio for desired 1.sup.st and 2.sup.nd fuel amounts to be injected alternately in consecutive induction strokes for the selected group of cylinders to achieve the target exhaust temperature; wherein the ratio defines an offset between an increased 1.sup.st fuel amount to be injected in a cylinder of the selected group of cylinders for every second induction stroke, and a reduced 2.sup.nd fuel amount to be injected for the intermediate induction strokes.

An internal combustion engine condition determination apparatus includes a storage device; and an execution device. The storage device stores mapping data that defines a mapping. The execution device is configured to execute an acquisition process of acquiring an internal combustion engine state variable every time a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine rotates by a predetermined angle, and a determination process of determining a condition of the internal combustion engine based on an output obtained through the mapping using the internal combustion engine state variable as an input. The mapping data is trained by machine learning. The execution device is configured to prohibit the determination process when a rotation speed of the crankshaft is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.

One embodiment is a system comprising an engine including a dedicated EGR cylinder configured to provide EGR to the engine via an EGR loop, a non-dedicated cylinder, a plurality of injectors structured to inject fuel into the dedicated EGR cylinder and the non-dedicated EGR cylinder, and an electronic control system operatively coupled with the fueling system and the ignition system. The electronic control system is configured to evaluate engine operating parameters including an engine load and an engine speed. The electronic control system is responsive to variation of the engine operating parameters to control operation of the fueling system to vary combustion in the at least one dedicated cylinder between rich of stoichiometric and stoichiometric.

Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.

A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is configured to perform an all-cylinder operation and a partial-cylinder operation. The ignition timing controller executes a process that sets a knock control amount and a knock learning value, a process that determines whether knocking is occurring, a process that updates a value of the knock control amount in accordance with whether knocking is occurring, a process that updates the knock learning value such that the knock learning value gradually approaches a knock control operated amount, a process that operates ignition timing of each cylinder based on the knock control amount and the knock learning value, and a process that limits update of the knock learning value such that a followability of the knock learning value to the knock control operated amount is lower during the partial-cylinder operation than during the all-cylinder operation.