US Patent 7328684 Control device for internal combustion engine

An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an accelerator position; calculating a load factor KL of an engine based on the accelerator position or the like; when the engine is in a high load region, raising a pressure of fuel supplied to an in-cylinder injector and increasing a degree of opening of a throttle valve and/or increasing a lift amount of an intake valve; and when the engine is not in the high load region, lowering the pressure of the fuel supplied to the in-cylinder injector and decreasing the degree of opening of the throttle valve and/or decreasing the lift amount of the intake valve.