EXHAUST CLEANER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine. An object of the invention is to reduce the amount of particulate matter that flows out from a catalytic converter that continuously burns particulate matter contained in an exhaust gas. The exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine of the present invention includes a catalytic converter that continuously burns particulate matter contained in an exhaust gas; particle amount acquisition means that acquires an inflow amount of particulate matter to the catalytic converter; and particle amount increase means that, when an acquired inflow amount of particulate matter is less than a predetermined threshold value ±, changes a value of a control parameter of the internal combustion engine in a direction such that the inflow amount of particulate matter to the catalytic converter increases. The threshold value ± corresponds to a value of a particulate matter inflow amount to the catalytic converter at a time when a particulate matter outflow amount from the catalytic converter is a local minimum in a graph showing a relation between a particulate matter inflow amount to the catalytic converter and a particulate matter outflow amount from the catalytic converter.