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Fuel control device for internal-combustion engines
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1987-12-24
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Granted: 1989-04-04
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Expires: 2007-12-24
Abstract
Abstract A fuel control device for internal-combustion engines in which a proper correction value is calculated from the contents of memories corresponding to adjacent representative points, meeting every condition of the amount of mixture drawn in, by selecting representative points to represent the tendency of a flow-dependency characteristic change of intake sensor output, thereby obtaining a proper correction value in a region where the negative feedback of air-fuel ratio is controlled as well as in a region where the negative feedback can not be controlled.
Inventors
- 👤 Toshihiro Yamada
- 👤 Hiroyuki Takebayashi
- 👤 Setsuhiro Shimomura
- 👤 Yukinobu Nishimura
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 01:31
CPC Classifications
F; F02; F02D; F02D41/00; F02D41/22; F02D41/02; F02D41/18; F02D41/182; F02D41/14; F02D41/24; F02D41/2406; F02D41/2425; F02D41/2429; F02D41/2451; F02D41/2454
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
209 words
A fuel control device for internal-combustion engines, comprising: (a) a fuel supply means for supplying fuel to an internal-combustion engine in accordance with the operation of a fuel control valve; (b) a hot-wire intake sensor provided in an intake passageway of said internal-combustion engine; for sensing the amount of air being drawn in; an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust pipe of said internal-combustion engine; and (c) a fuel control means which calculates the amount of fuel required by said internal-combustion engine on the basis of the output of said hot-wire intake sensor, and controls said control valve to control said fuel supply means so as to supply the fuel to said internal-combustion engine, and, at the same time, receives the output of said air-fuel ratio sensor to provide negative feedback to compensate for change in characteristic of said hot-wire intake sensor; said fuel control means including: (i) memories and a writing means for writing in corresponding memories an amount of feedback correction corresponding to the output of said intake sensor at selected representative points, and (ii) a correction means for correcting the setting of said control valve by interpolation operation from the output of said intake sensor and the content of memories corresponding to said representative points.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
209 words
A fuel control device for internal-combustion engines, comprising: (a) a fuel supply means for supplying fuel to an internal-combustion engine in accordance with the operation of a fuel control valve; (b) a hot-wire intake sensor provided in an intake passageway of said internal-combustion engine; for sensing the amount of air being drawn in; an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust pipe of said internal-combustion engine; and (c) a fuel control means which calculates the amount of fuel required by said internal-combustion engine on the basis of the output of said hot-wire intake sensor, and controls said control valve to control said fuel supply means so as to supply the fuel to said internal-combustion engine, and, at the same time, receives the output of said air-fuel ratio sensor to provide negative feedback to compensate for change in characteristic of said hot-wire intake sensor; said fuel control means including: (i) memories and a writing means for writing in corresponding memories an amount of feedback correction corresponding to the output of said intake sensor at selected representative points, and (ii) a correction means for correcting the setting of said control valve by interpolation operation from the output of said intake sensor and the content of memories corresponding to said representative points.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
38 words
A fuel control device as claimed in claim 1, in which the representative points of output of said intake sensor are selected to correspond to the tendency of a change in output of said intake sensor with time.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
79 words
A fuel control device as claimed in claim 1, in which said fuel control means stops rewriting memory after the establishment of at least one of a plurality of conditions including when a specific time has elapsed after the starting of engine operation, when an integral value of the amount of mixture taken in has reached a specified amount and when an integral number of revolutions of said internal-combustion engine or a distance traversed has reached a specific value.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
46 words
A fuel control device as claimed in claim 3, in which said fuel control means releases the stop of memory rewriting after cleaning a hot-wire surface by heating up a hot wire of the hot-wire intake sensor over normal operating temperature after the engine has stopped.
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