Methods and systems are provided for identifying degraded exhaust gas temperature (EGT) sensor responses. In one example, a method may include cycling an engine between a higher temperature operating mode and a lower temperature operating mode while maintaining engine torque output across the higher temperature operating mode and the lower temperature operating modes, both the higher temperature operating mode and the lower temperature operating mode providing stoichiometric exhaust gas to a downstream catalyst, and characterizing a response behavior of an EGT sensor based on output of the EGT sensor during the cycling. In this way, stepwise exhaust gas temperature changes are produced for characterizing the EGT sensor response without disrupting emissions and torque control.

[Problem to be Solved]

To provide a driving control device for a fuel pump that can properly control the fuel pump such that an operation state is maintained with a simple configuration without requiring a storage capacity for storing a 3D map and a high processing ability for map calculation.

[Solution]

A driving control device for a fuel pump is characterized by including a valve-opening-rate calculating unit 33 that calculates an injector valve opening rate, which is an injection time of an injector per unit time and a driving control unit 34 that sets a voltage duty ratio of a driving voltage that should be applied to the fuel pump that supplies fuel in a fuel tank to a fuel pipe communicating with the injector, in which the driving control unit 34 sets, as a voltage duty ratio of the driving voltage that should be applied to the fuel pump, a value proportional to the injector valve opening rate calculated by the valve-opening-rate calculating unit.

A method for monitoring a pressure sensor in a direct injection system including at least one common rail, a high-pressure fuel pump, a hydraulic circuit connecting the high-pressure pump to the common rail, a passive pressure-limiting valve connected to the hydraulic circuit, configured to open once the pressure in the hydraulic circuit is greater than a threshold pressure, so as to discharge the fuel, including the steps of detecting the opening of the pressure-limiting valve, measuring the pressure P.sub.MES corresponding to the time of opening of the pressure-limiting valve and comparing the measured pressure P.sub.MES to the threshold pressure P.sub.1 in order to detect a drift in the pressure sensor.

A fluid control system is provided that in one form includes a first flow channel, a second flow channel, a heater disposed in the second flow channel, and a fluid control device disposed upstream from the first and second flow channels. When the heater is turned on, the fluid control device changes a fluid flow rate through at least one of the first flow channel and the second flow channel. In another form, the fluid control system includes a bypass conduit, a heater disposed within the bypass conduit, and a fluid control device disposed near the inlet and outlet of the bypass conduit. In still another form, the fluid control system includes a regeneration device disposed downstream from at least one exhaust aftertreatment system and closes an outlet of the exhaust pipe.

A deterioration determination apparatus is usable with an ammonia sensor that includes an ammonia element portion that includes, a solid electrolyte, an ammonia electrode, and a reference electrode. The deterioration determining apparatus compares a first evaluation value and a second evaluation value, and determines whether deterioration has occurred in the ammonia element portion of the ammonia sensor at an evaluation time or subsequent to the evaluation time. The first evaluation value is based on a first sensor current obtained when a DC voltage is applied between the ammonia electrode and the reference electrode of the ammonia element portion at an initial time that is during an initial use period of the ammonia sensor. The second evaluation value is based on a second sensor current obtained when the DC voltage is applied between the ammonia electrode and the reference electrode subsequent to the initial period of use of the ammonia sensor.

Provided are a novel exhaust pipe temperature estimation device and a sensor heater control apparatus for an exhaust gas sensor using the same that accurately estimates an estimation exhaust pipe temperature when an internal combustion engine is stopped and restarted in response to a change of an environmental condition of the internal combustion engine and controls an operation of a sensor heater based on the estimated estimation exhaust pipe temperature. Thus, at least first correction information Tz based on a change of an exhaust pipe temperature and an elapsed time at stop, second correction information Ty based on a change of an internal combustion engine temperature at the stop of the internal combustion engine, and third correction information Tz based on a change of a cooling degree due to outdoor air during stop from the stop to restart are obtained, an estimation exhaust pipe temperature at the stop is corrected using at least one or more pieces of the correction information at restart of the internal combustion engine to estimate an estimation exhaust pipe temperature at the restart, and an estimation exhaust pipe temperature during an operation of the internal combustion engine thereafter is obtained using the estimation exhaust pipe temperature as an initial value, and further, a heating operation of a sensor heater is started when the estimation exhaust pipe temperature becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined value.

A control device of a general-purpose engine which can continue operation of a working machine even when an operation management unit of the working machine has failed. The control device includes an engine control unit that controls the general-purpose engine based on a command from the operation management unit managing an operating state of the working machine, a communication interface for communicating with an external device; a management program acquisition unit that acquires a management program that is used by the operation management unit to manage the operating state, from the external device through the communication interface and stores the acquired management program in a storage medium, and an operation management substitute unit that manages the operating state of the working machine in place of the operation management unit in accordance with the management program when a failure of operation management unit is detected.

A fuel quality rating testing system and related methodology. The system comprises a data acquisition system, comprising: (i) circuitry for receiving a time-varying signal from a pickup, the pickup for coupling to a test engine; and (ii) circuitry for determining a fuel rating in response to the time-varying signal. The fuel quality rating testing system also comprises a communications path coupled to the fuel quality rating testing system and a calibrator.

A method of diagnosing a temperature sensor provided at a rear stage of an air filter includes: comparing a heating condition factor with a factor threshold; when the heating condition factor is less than the factor threshold, calculating a deviation between a temperature of an intake manifold and a temperature of intake air at a rear stage of an air filter; comparing a temperature threshold with the deviation; and, when the deviation exceeds the temperature threshold, diagnosing the intake air temperature sensor provided at the rear stage of the air filter as failing. According to the method, failure of a temperature sensor provided at a rear state of an air filter of an engine room can be diagnosed.

A Simulink modeling method for a mechanical hydraulic device of an aeroengine fuel regulator is proposed. The Simulink modeling method can implement high precision simulation of a mechanical hydraulic device of an engine fuel conditioning system, and greatly increase the simulation speed as compared with the existing modeling simulation in AMESim; solve the problem of a double-layered nested algebraic loop occurring when the mechanical hydraulic device is modeled in Simulink, and improve the simulation precision of the system. In addition, because of having certain universality, the resolving method for a double-layered nested algebraic loop can be generalized to resolve other types of algebraic loops. Meanwhile, the parameters of the simulation model provided by the present invention can be conveniently modified, and can provide a reference for modeling simulation of mechanical and hydraulic devices of engine fuel conditioning systems of other types.