Abstract: A microcomputer is configured to: calculate, the drive period of a previous injection, an injection interval, and an uncorrected target drive period for a current injection; obtain a correction period by increasing an internal variable from zero in proportion to the drive period of the previous injection during this drive period, attenuating the internal variable at a first-order delay during the injection interval, dividing the internal variable by a coefficient of the proportion at a start time point of the present current supply, and setting a result of the division as the correction period; and set a period obtained by subtracting the correction period from the uncorrected target drive period as a current drive period, to thereby supply a signal indicating the current drive period to the injector via a driver.

Abstract: A microcomputer is configured to: calculate, the drive period of a previous injection, an injection interval, and an uncorrected target drive period for a current injection; obtain a correction period by increasing an internal variable from zero in proportion to the drive period of the previous injection during this drive period, attenuating the internal variable at a first-order delay during the injection interval, dividing the internal variable by a coefficient of the proportion at a start time point of the present current supply, and setting a result of the division as the correction period; and set a period obtained by subtracting the correction period from the uncorrected target drive period as a current drive period, to thereby supply a signal indicating the current drive period to the injector via a driver.

Abstract: A flow control valve includes a hollow cylinder 32 having an open end and a fluid flow port 31 formed in its circumferential wall, a solenoid coil disposed around the cylinder, and a valve member 41 slidable within the cylinder in response to an amount of power supplied to the solenoid coil for adjusting an opening area of the fluid flow port to control the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the fluid flow port and the open end of the cylinder. A protective inner-diameter portion 32a formed in the open end of the cylinder is provided in association with a fluid flow path including the fluid flow port and the open end of the cylinder for preventing any foreign matters entrained in a fluid from being caught in the clearance defined between the hollow cylinder and the valve member by providing an annular clearance between the cylinder and the valve member.