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Granted Patent B2
US 8,534,237 · App. 12/765,488 · Granted Sep 17, 2013

Control system of internal combustion engine

Inventors: Kazuki Iwatani (Susono, JP); Yasushi Ito (Susono, JP); Shiro Tanno (Gotemba, JP)
Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent No.
US 8,534,237
App. No.
12/765,488
Granted
Sep 17, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An internal combustion engine can use ammonia and a non-ammonia fuel which is easier to burn than ammonia as fuel. The non-ammonia fuel is directly injected into a combustion chamber by a non-ammonia fuel injector, and the injected non-ammonia fuel is ignited, whereby combustion of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber is commenced. In the control system of the internal combustion engine, the injection timing of the non-ammonia fuel is advanced at a time when a ratio of ammonia in all fuel fed to the internal combustion engine is high in comparison with the time when the ratio is low. Therefore, a control system of an internal combustion engine capable of using ammonia and a non-ammonia fuel (gasoline, light oil, hydrogen, etc.) which is easier to burn than ammonia, which suitably feeds fuel and controls combustion in order to suitably burn an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber is provided.

Claims (2)

1. A control system of an internal combustion engine capable of using, as fuel, ammonia and a non-ammonia fuel which is easier to burn than ammonia, having the non-ammonia fuel directly injected into a combustion chamber by a non-ammonia fuel injection system, and having combustion of an air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber commenced by ignition of the injected non-ammonia fuel, wherein an injection timing of the non-ammonia fuel is advanced at the time when a ratio of ammonia in all fuel fed to the internal combustion engine is high in comparison with the time when the ratio is low.

2. A control system of an internal combustion engine capable of using, as fuel, ammonia and a non-ammonia fuel which is easier to burn than ammonia, and having combustion of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber commenced by ignition of the air-fuel mixture by an ignition device, wherein the injection timing is advanced at the time when the ratio of ammonia in all fuel fed to the internal combustion engine is high in comparison with the time when the ratio is low.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 22, 2010
From: IWATANI, KAZUKI; ITO, YASUSHI; TANNO, SHIRO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 024283/0823 →
Continuity (1)
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