IP Library Granted Patent US 7,610,141
Granted Patent B2
US 7,610,141 · App. 12/164,555 · Granted Oct 27, 2009

Control apparatus for direct injection type internal combustion engine

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Patent No.
US 7,610,141
App. No.
12/164,555
Granted
Oct 27, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus controls the quantity of fuel injection of an injector in accordance with the fuel pressure in the fuel rail of a direct injection type internal combustion engine. A reference value for controlling the injector is obtained on the basis of the difference and the fuel pressure in the fuel rail at the time of starting fuel injection out of injector.

Claims (8)

1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a high-pressure fuel pump discharging fuel into a fuel pipe, detection means for detecting fuel pressure in said fuel pipe and a fuel injector injecting fuel of said fuel pipe into a cylinder of said engine, wherein

said control apparatus controls a quantity of fuel injected by said fuel injector based on a difference between a quantity of injected fuel from said fuel injector and a quantity of fuel discharged from said high-pressure pump in a time period of fuel injection of said fuel injector.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

said control apparatus controls the quantity of fuel injected by said fuel injector based on said difference and a fuel pressure in the fuel pipe at the timing of starting fuel injection of the fuel injector.

3. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a high-pressure fuel pump discharging fuel into a fuel pipe, detection means for detecting fuel pressure in said fuel pipe and a fuel injector injecting fuel of said fuel pipe into a cylinder of said engine, wherein

said control apparatus calculates a quantity of fuel injected by said fuel injector based on a fuel pressure obtained by said detection means, and controls an actual quantity of fuel injected by said fuel injector and a quantity of fuel discharged from said high-pressure pump in a time period of fuel injection of said fuel injector.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein when said detection means is abnormal or at fault, a value of the fuel pressure is set in a fixed value.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein when the high-pressure fuel pump is abnormal or at fault, either the quantity of fuel discharged from the high-pressure fuel pump during the fuel injection period is calculated as a constant value, or the time of starting the fuel discharge from the high-pressure fuel pump is set at a fixed interval, and the constant value takes different constant values depending on whether the high-pressure fuel pump is of full-discharge failure of zero-discharge failure.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058481/0935 →
DEMERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058960/0001 →