Nixon Peabody LLP
Direct fuel injection engine
 A direct injection engine including, an ignition plug projected into a combustion chamber, an injector for injecting a fuel directly into the combustion chamber, a catalyst provided in an exhaust gas passage for cleaning an exhaust gas, a temperature senisor for detecting a coolant temperature condition of the catalyst, a control unit, for receiving signals from the sensor to determine that the catalyst is lower than an activation temperature when the engine coolant temperature is lower than a predetermined value, for calculating a fuel injection timing and fuel injection amount from the injector to form a fuel rich combustion gas mixture around the ignition plug equivalent to or richer than a combustion as mixture having a theoretical air fuel ratio and a fuel lean combustion as mixture leaner than the combustion as mixture having the theoretical air fuel ratio in an area surrounding said area of the fuel rich combustion gas mixture when it is determined that the temperature of the catalyst is lower than an activation temperature, and, for producing signals to the injector to inject the fuel at the fuel injection timing. The emission performance of the exhaust gas is improved. The warming up of the catalyst as well as the engine is facilitated. 
Mazda Motor Corporation
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Youichi Noriyuki Hirofumi Hiroyuki
Kuji Ota Nishimura Yamashita