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US4662340A
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Electronic fuel injection system for internal combustion engine
Assignee: Hitachi Ltd
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Filing: 1986-04-02
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Granted: 1987-05-05
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Expires: 2006-04-02
Abstract
Abstract A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine, which comprises a fuel injection valve device for supplying the engine with fuel, an air flow rate detector for detecting a quantity of air sucked by the engine, a detector for detecting a revolutional speed of the engine, apparatus for determining whether the engine is in a highly loaded state or not, and a control arrangement for calculating a basic pulse width of a valve opening pulse for the injection valve device on the basis of respective output signals of the respective detectors. The control arrangement is arranged to add a first valve-opening pulse width correction value to the calculated fundamental pulse width on the basis of a correction map predetermined corresponding to various values of the revolutional speed of the engine to thereby obtain a corrected pulse width, and to further add a second valve-opening pulse width correction value to the corrected pulse width on the basis of a predetermined high-load correction map when the engine is in a highly loaded state, thereby making small the variation in air fuel ratio in performing the power correction in the engine.
Inventors
- 👤 Masami Nagano
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-28 12:36
CPC Classifications
F; F02; F02D; F02D41/00; F02D41/02; F02D41/14; F02D41/04; F02D41/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
353 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine, comprising: fuel injection valve means for supplying said engine with fuel; air flow rate detection means for detecting a quantity of air sucked by said engine; engine revolutional speed detection means for detecting a revolutional speed of said engine; load state determining means for determining whether said engine is in a highly loaded state or not; control means for calculating a basic pulse width of a value opening pulse for said injection valve means on the basis of respective output signals of said air flow detection means and said engine speed detection means; a first correction factor map storing a first set of predetermined correction factors corresponding to various values of the revolutional speed of said engine and various values of the valve opening pulse width for said injection valve means to be calculated by said control means; a second correction factor map storing a second set of correction factors corresponding to various values of the revolutional speed of said engine; and said control means being arranged such that when said load state determining means determines there is no highly loaded state said control means reads out a correct factor corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine detected at that time by said revolution speed detection means and the basic valve opening pulse width calculated at that time by said calculation means to thereby correct the basic valve opening pulse width calculated at that time with the read-out correction factor, while when said load state determining means determines there is a highly loaded state said control means reads out a correct factor corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine detected at that time by said revolutional speed detection means and the basic value opening pulse width calculated at that time by said calculation means and further reads out another correction factor to thereby correct the basic value opening pulse width calculated at that time with a sum of said two read-out correction factors, said control means supplying said injection valve means with a valve opening pulse having the thus correct pulse width.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
353 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine, comprising: fuel injection valve means for supplying said engine with fuel; air flow rate detection means for detecting a quantity of air sucked by said engine; engine revolutional speed detection means for detecting a revolutional speed of said engine; load state determining means for determining whether said engine is in a highly loaded state or not; control means for calculating a basic pulse width of a value opening pulse for said injection valve means on the basis of respective output signals of said air flow detection means and said engine speed detection means; a first correction factor map storing a first set of predetermined correction factors corresponding to various values of the revolutional speed of said engine and various values of the valve opening pulse width for said injection valve means to be calculated by said control means; a second correction factor map storing a second set of correction factors corresponding to various values of the revolutional speed of said engine; and said control means being arranged such that when said load state determining means determines there is no highly loaded state said control means reads out a correct factor corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine detected at that time by said revolution speed detection means and the basic valve opening pulse width calculated at that time by said calculation means to thereby correct the basic valve opening pulse width calculated at that time with the read-out correction factor, while when said load state determining means determines there is a highly loaded state said control means reads out a correct factor corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine detected at that time by said revolutional speed detection means and the basic value opening pulse width calculated at that time by said calculation means and further reads out another correction factor to thereby correct the basic value opening pulse width calculated at that time with a sum of said two read-out correction factors, said control means supplying said injection valve means with a valve opening pulse having the thus correct pulse width.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
62 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, in which said load state determining means determines whether said engine is in a highly loaded state or not on the basis of the revolutional speed of said engine detected by said engine revolutional speed detection means and the basic valve opening pulse width calculated by said control means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
99 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine according to claim 2, in which said load state determining means has a threshold map in which various threshold values of the basic valve opening pulse for determining the load state corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine are predetermined in advance, so as to determine said engine to be in a highly loaded state when said calculated basic pulse width has a value larger than a threshold value in said threshold map corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine detected by said engine revolutional speed detection means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine according to claim 3, in which said threshold value varies depending on the revolutional speed of said engine.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
73 words
A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine according to claim 3, in which having determined once that said engine is in a highly loaded state, said load state determining means determines that said engine is in said highly loaded state unless the basic valve opening pulse width is reduced to a value lower than one of said threshold values corresponding to the revolutional speed of said engine by a predetermined ratio.
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