DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STOPPING AN ENGINE

摘要

The internal combustion engine control technique of the invention computes a TDC pass rotation speed Ntdc, which represents the rotation speed of an engine when one of multiple cylinders of the engine passes over a top dead center TDC (step S110). The control technique estimates an engine stop crank angle CAs from a map that is experimentally or otherwise obtained to represent a variation in TDC pass rotation speed Ntdc against the stop position of the engine (step S120), and specifies a fuel injection cylinder that stops in a preset cycle range including part of a compression stroke at a stop of the engine (step S130). The specified fuel injection cylinder receives lean fuel injection at a specific fuel injection timing (step S170). When the specified fuel injection cylinder is later presumed not to pass over a top dead center TDC of the compression stroke, a corrected amount of fuel is injected into the specified fuel injection cylinder (step S240). When the specified fuel injection cylinder is later presumed to pass over the top dead center TDC of the compression stroke, on the other hand, the control technique ignites an air-fuel mixture of the intake air and the injected fuel for combustion in the compression stroke, synchronously with fuel injection into a next cylinder that goes into the compression stroke after the specified fuel injection cylinder (step S270).