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Granted Patent B2
US 9,822,722 · App. 14/862,357 · Granted Nov 21, 2017

Fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus for internal combustion engine

Inventors: Shunichi Tsutsuji (Okazaki, JP); Koji Honda (Toyota, JP); Makiko Nakayama (Toyota, JP); Kinji Morihiro (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
F02D41/22G01L27/007F02D41/406F02D2041/223F02D2041/224Y02T10/40
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Patent No.
US 9,822,722
App. No.
14/862,357
Granted
Nov 21, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that a fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in the case where, because a state where a detected value of the fuel pressure sensor is less than a target value occurs, a fuel discharge amount of a fuel pump is increased, and as a result, the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, and even if a predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, the detected value is less than the target value.

Claims (7)

1. A fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus being applied to the internal combustion engine equipped with a fuel supply system, the fuel supply system including a fuel pump that supplies fuel to a fuel injection valve, a fuel pressure sensor that detects a pressure of the fuel supplied from the fuel pump to the fuel injection valve, a target value setting circuit that sets a target value of the pressure of the fuel supplied from the fuel pump to the fuel injection valve, and a fuel pressure feedback controller that performs feedback control of a fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump so that a detected value of the fuel pressure that is detected by the fuel pressure sensor coincides with the target value,

the fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to diagnose an abnormality of the fuel pressure sensor,

wherein the processor is configured to diagnose that the fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in a case where, because a state where the detected value is less than the target value occurs, the fuel pressure feedback controller increases the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump, and as a result, the fuel discharge amount reaches a maximum amount of the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump, and even if a first predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel discharge amount reaches the maximum amount of the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump, the detected value is less than the target value, and

the processor is configured to diagnose that the fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in a case where, because a fuel pressure deviation state where the detected value is deviated by a first predetermined value or more from the target value occurs, the fuel pressure feedback controller controls the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump, a second predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel pressure deviation state occurs, and the detected value is not changed by a second predetermined value or more toward the target value.

2. The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to increase or decrease the target value by the first predetermined value or more to make the fuel pressure deviation state occur in a case where, when the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump does not reach the maximum amount of the fuel discharge amount of the fuel pump, the fuel pressure deviation state does not occur during a third predetermined period or longer.

3. The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel supply system includes a high pressure side and a low pressure side having a lower fuel pressure than the high pressure side, and the fuel pressure sensor is disposed on the low pressure side.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2015
From: TSUTSUJI, SHUNICHI; HONDA, KOJI; NAKAYAMA, MAKIKO; MORIHIRO, KINJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-199139 · Sep 29, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160090933A1 · Mar 31, 2016