A method for estimating pressure in an intake manifold of an indirect injection combustion engine. A pressure sensor measures pressure in the intake manifold, the intake manifold being in fluidic communication with a combustion cylinder, a piston guided in translation in the combustion cylinder and connected to a rotating crankshaft. The method includes: measuring, with the pressure sensor, a maximum pressure corresponding substantially to a maximum pressure in the intake manifold during a preceding cycle of the engine; measuring, with the pressure sensor, a minimum pressure corresponding substantially to a minimum pressure in the intake manifold during the preceding cycle of the engine; determining a pre-calculated average pressure correction factor from a crankshaft angular position and from an engine speed; and estimating the pressure in the intake manifold for the crankshaft angular position of the current engine cycle from the average correction factor and from the minimum and maximum pressures.

An internal combustion engine and method for simultaneously regulating the exhaust gas temperature and the charge pressure of an internal combustion engine. An internal combustion engine that includes: an exhaust gas turbocharger (17) including a turbine (19) that is situated in an exhaust duct (8), and including a compressor (18) that is situated in an intake duct (4); a bypass valve (13) via which at least a portion of an exhaust gas mass flow of the internal combustion engine may be led past the turbine (19); and an exhaust gas flap (15) that is situated in the exhaust duct (8), downstream from the turbine (19) and the bypass valve (13).

A system includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of exhaust gas produced by an engine, and a boost error module configured to determine a boost error of the engine. The system further includes a combustion control module configured to select at least one of a target boost pressure of the engine, a target EGR flow rate of the engine, and a target fuel injection parameter of the engine from a first set of target values when the exhaust gas temperature is less than a predetermined temperature and the boost error is less than a predetermined value, and to select the at least one of the target boost pressure, the target EGR flow rate, and the target fuel injection parameter from a second set of target values when the exhaust gas temperature is less than the predetermined temperature and the boost error is greater than the predetermined value.

An intake air flow rate into an intake passage is detected with an internal combustion engine as a control device, and atmospheric pressure and temperature are estimated or detected. An intake passage internal average pressure and an intake passage internal average temperature in a region up to a throttle valve of the intake passage as one region are estimated. Distributions of a pressure and a temperature inside the intake passage are estimated based on the estimated intake passage internal average pressure, the intake passage internal average temperature, and a model of energy change caused by a constituent element included in the intake passage.

A fuel injection controller for a vessel engine to drive a propulsion apparatus mounted in a vessel is configured or programmed to execute functions of an effective opening area calculator to calculate an effective opening area of a throttle valve based on a throttle opening degree of the vessel engine, a filter value calculator to determine a first-order lag filter value of the effective opening area, a correction value calculator to determine a ratio of the effective opening area to the first-order lag filter value as a correction value, a predictive suction pressure calculator to determine predictive suction pressure by multiplying an average value of suction pressure detected at a suction passage by the correction value determined by the correction value calculator, a fuel injection amount calculator to calculate a fuel injection amount based on the predictive suction pressure, and a fuel injection driver to drive a fuel injector based on the fuel injection amount.

Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and controlling a variable geometry turbocharger during early intake valve opening to reduce or prevent oil consumption.

Various embodiments may include a method for checking the plausibility of the functionality of a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine, wherein crankcase ventilation system has a crankcase, an intake tract equipped with an intake manifold, and a connecting line arranged between the crankcase and the intake manifold, the method comprising: detecting an occurrence of a negative load change; in response, comparing a measured intake manifold pressure with a modelled intake manifold pressure using acquired operating variables of the internal combustion engine and of a crankcase model; and determining on the basis of the comparison result whether the connecting line arranged between the crankcase and the intake manifold becomes blocked or drops out.

A measurement control device measures an air flow rate using an output value of a sensing portion that outputs a signal according to the air flow rate, and outputs the measurement result of the air flow rate to a predetermined external device. The measurement control device includes: a pulsation state calculator that calculates a pulsation state, which is a state of pulsation generated in the air flow rate, by using the output value of the sensing portion instead of acquiring an output value from an external device; and a flow rate correcting unit that corrects the air flow rate using the pulsation state calculated by the pulsation state calculator.

A method for diagnosing the valve timing of an internal combustion engine, a characteristic curve of an actual intake manifold pressure signal being ascertained as a function of a crankshaft signal, the characteristic curve of the actual intake manifold pressure signal being compared to a characteristic curve of a setpoint intake manifold pressure signal and a shift of the valve timing being diagnosed in the event of a specifiable deviation of the actual intake manifold pressure signal from the setpoint intake manifold pressure signal.

Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and controlling a variable geometry turbocharger during early intake valve opening to reduce or prevent oil consumption.