Patent ID: 7814743

Claim:
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine including first fuel injection means for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, and allowing at least intake valve control for controlling an intake air amount into said combustion chamber by an intake valve, said control apparatus comprising: starter means for starting said internal combustion engine, start time decompression means for setting said intake air amount as an initial value of said intake valve control, said intake air amount corresponding to decompression in said combustion chamber at startup of said internal combustion engine, decompression cancel means for gradually altering said intake air amount from said initial value to increase the pressure in said combustion chamber higher than at startup, following startup of said internal combustion engine, determination means for determining whether a compression state in said combustion chamber has reached a predetermined standard state, start time fuel injection control means for inhibiting fuel injection from said first fuel injection means until a time when said determination means determines that the compression state in said combustion chamber has reached said predetermined standard state, and allowing fuel injection from said first fuel injection means after said time, at startup of said internal combustion engine, and second fuel injection means for injecting fuel into an intake port and/or an intake manifold, wherein said start time fuel injection control means inhibits fuel injection from said first fuel injection means and instructs fuel injection by said second fuel injection means until the time when said determination means determines that the compression state in said combustion chamber has reached said predetermined standard state.