IP Library Granted Patent US 7,661,411
Granted Patent B2
US 7,661,411 · App. 11/631,475 · Granted Feb 16, 2010

Multi-cylinder engine fuel control method, engine fuel injection amount control method and engine operation state discrimination method using the same, propulsion apparatus for multiple engines, and fuel injection control method during crash astern in marine engine with reduction and reversal device

Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,661,411
App. No.
11/631,475
Granted
Feb 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel control method which recognizes a revolution of a crankshaft based on the cylinders before the combustion cycle of a cylinder in question. When the supply of fuel by injection from an injector to a certain cylinder of the six cylinders has become impossible, then control is performed to change the number of cylinders targeted by the rotation recognition means so as to recognize the revolution of the crankshaft for all six cylinders whose combustion cycles are consecutive prior to the combustion cycle of the cylinder in question, and to stop the supply of fuel from the injectors for supplying fuel to cylinders whose combustion cycles are equally spaced from the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible, so that the spacing between the combustion cycles in the cylinders whose combustion cycles come before and after and sandwich the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible becomes uniform.

Claims (16)

1. A fuel injection amount control method of an engine for controlling an injection amount of fuel that is injected from a fuel injection valve,

wherein a transient state of the engine is determined, and when it has been determined that the engine has transitioned to a transient state, control is performed to switch a fuel injection amount adjustment map so as to limit a maximum injection amount of fuel from the fuel injection valve.

2. A fuel injection amount control method of an engine for controlling an injection amount of fuel that is injected from a fuel injection valve,

wherein a transient state of determining whether or not the engine is determined, and when it has been determined that the engine has transitioned to a transient state, control is performed to change a filtering constant of the fuel injection amount with respect to a transient time so as to limit a maximum injection amount of fuel from the fuel injection valve.

3. The fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the maximum injection amount of fuel from the fuel injection valve is limited based on a sensor signal regarding an intake air amount or a boost pressure, when it has been determined that the engine has transitioned to a transient state.

4. The fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 2 ,

wherein the maximum injection amount of fuel from the fuel injection valve is limited based on a sensor signal regarding an intake air amount or a boost pressure when it has been determined that the engine has transitioned to a transient state.

5. An engine operation state discrimination method that uses a fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 1 ,

wherein when an amount of change in a throttle opening has become larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that the engine is in a transient state.

6. An engine operation state discrimination method that uses a fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 2 ,

wherein when an amount of change in a throttle opening has become larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that the engine is in a transient state.

7. An engine operation state discrimination method that uses a fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 1 ,

wherein when an amount of change in a rail pressure and a fuel injection amount setting value has become larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that the engine is in a transient state.

8. An engine operation state discrimination method that uses a fuel injection amount control method of an engine according to claim 2 ,

wherein when an amount of change in a rail pressure and a fuel injection amount setting value has become larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that the engine is in a transient state.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054162/0112 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2007
From: KOTOU, FUMIYA; OTANI, TOMOHIRO; ADACHI, HITOSHI; SHIOMI, HIDEO
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 018774/0623 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2004-204353 · Jul 12, 2004 · national
JP 2004-204357 · Jul 12, 2004 · national
JP 2004-204358 · Jul 12, 2004 · national
JP 2004-204359 · Jul 12, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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