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Granted Patent B2
US 10,578,046 · App. 16/092,831 · Granted Mar 3, 2020

Fuel injection control device

Inventors: Nobuyuki Satake (Kariya, JP); Tomohiro Nakano (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 10,578,046
App. No.
16/092,831
Granted
Mar 3, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel injection control device has a detection unit, a correction value calculation unit, and a conduction time calculation unit. The detection unit detects a current increase speed that is a speed of increasing an electric current flowing in an electromagnetic coil in accordance with the start of conducting the electromagnetic coil during partial lift injection in which a valve body starts valve closing operation before the valve body reaches a maximum valve opening position after the valve body starts valve opening operation. The correction value calculation unit calculates a correction value for a requested injection quantity on the basis of the detected current increase speed. The conduction time calculation unit calculates a conduction time of the electromagnetic coil during the partial lift injection on the basis of the requested injection quantity corrected by the correction value.

Claims (17)

1. A fuel injection control device that is applied to a fuel injection valve including a valve body to open and close an injection hole to inject a fuel and an electric actuator that has an electromagnetic coil and a movable core to move by being attracted by an electromagnetic force generated by conducting the electromagnetic coil and operates the valve body for valve opening, the fuel injection control device to control a valve opening time of the valve body by controlling a conduction time of the electromagnetic coil and thus control an injection quantity injected per one time valve opening of the valve body, the fuel injection control device comprising:

a detection unit to detect a current increase speed that is a speed of increasing an electric current flowing in the electromagnetic coil in accordance with the start of conducting the electromagnetic coil during partial lift injection in which the valve body starts valve closing operation before the valve body reaches a maximum valve opening position after the valve body starts valve opening operation;

a correction value calculation unit to calculate a correction value for a requested injection quantity that is the injection quantity required on the basis of the current increase speed detected by the detection unit; and

a conduction time calculation unit to calculate the conduction time of the electromagnetic coil during the partial lift injection on the basis of the requested injection quantity corrected by the correction value.

2. The fuel injection control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the correction value calculation unit includes

an offset correction quantity calculation unit to calculate an offset correction quantity to correct the requested injection quantity by adding the offset correction quantity to or subtracting the offset correction quantity from the requested injection quantity on the basis of the current increase speed, and

a correction coefficient calculation unit to calculate a correction coefficient to correct the requested injection quantity by multiplying the requested injection quantity by the correction coefficient on the basis of the current increase speed.

3. The fuel injection control device according to claim 2 , wherein

an injection characteristic line representing a relationship between the conduction time and the injection quantity in the partial lift injection includes a first region where the inclination of the injection characteristic line increases gradually in proportion to the increase of the conduction time and reaches a prescribed inclination, and a second region, the second region being a region on the side where the conduction time is longer than the first region, where the inclination of the injection characteristic line forms a constant straight line, and

the correction coefficient calculation unit calculates the correction coefficient on the basis of the inclination of the injection characteristic line in the second region estimated from a correlation with the current increase speed.

4. The fuel injection control device according to claim 2 , wherein

an injection characteristic line representing a relationship between the conduction time and the injection quantity in the partial lift injection includes a first region where the inclination of the injection characteristic line increases gradually in proportion to the increase of the conduction time and reaches a prescribed inclination, and a second region, the second region being a region on the side where the conduction time is longer than the first region, where the inclination of the injection characteristic line forms a constant straight line,

a value of the conduction time when the injection quantity is zero on a virtual straight line formed by extending the straight line is defined as a virtual time, and

the offset correction quantity calculation unit calculates the offset correction quantity on the basis of the virtual time estimated from a correlation with the current increase speed.

5. The fuel injection control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the detection unit obtains the current increase speed by detecting a time required from the start of conducting the electromagnetic coil until an electric current flowing in the electromagnetic coil reaches a prescribed value.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2018
From: SATAKE, NOBUYUKI; NAKANO, TOMOHIRO
To: DENSO CORPORATION; TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047131/0816 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2018
From: DENSO CORPORATION
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047131/0886 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-093320 · May 6, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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