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Abstract

There are provided a control device and an abnormal combustion detecting method for detecting occurrence of abnormal combustion during an expansion stroke of an internal combustion engine. The control device of the present invention receives a detection signal of a vibration sensor for detecting pressure vibration in a combustion chamber, and detects occurrence of knocking based on a knocking-specific frequency component extracted from the detection signal in a knocking determination region within the expansion stroke. In addition, the control device detects the characteristic value, different from the knocking-specific frequency component, of the detection signal in an abnormal combustion determination region which includes the knocking determination region and which expands over the compression stroke before ignition timing and the expansion stroke, and detects self-ignition during the compression stroke before ignition timing and self-ignition during the expansion stroke, based on the characteristic value.

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