Patent ID: 8671902

Claim:
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: fuel supply control means that, when a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is started, initially supplies fuel to only some cylinders, and delays a start of fuel supply to a delayed cylinder that is a cylinder other than the cylinders to which fuel is initially supplied; representative temperature acquiring means that acquires a representative temperature of the internal combustion engine; engine discharge gas HC amount predicting means that, based on predetermined parameters including at least the representative temperature, calculates a relationship between a delayed cylinder starting engine speed that is a engine speed at a timing at which a cycle starts in which the delayed cylinder initially carries out combustion and a predicted value of an engine discharge gas HC amount that is a HC amount that is output from the internal combustion engine when starting the internal combustion engine; and target engine speed calculating means that calculates a target engine speed that is a target value of the delayed cylinder starting engine speed, based on the relationship that is calculated by the engine discharge gas HC amount predicting means; wherein the fuel supply control means determines a timing at which to start to supply fuel to the delayed cylinder so that the delayed cylinder starting engine speed is in a vicinity of the target engine speed.