Abstract: A control system for controlling an internal combustion engine which is provided with at least one fuel injection pump which comprises for the control of the fuel injection pump a control rod, a servomotor, which is adapted to be mechanically coupled to said control rod, and a microcomputer for controlling said servomotor in dependence on operating conditions of the engine and on the position of an arbitrarily operable travel control lever. Means are provided for establishing a direct mechanical connection between the arbitrarily operable travel control lever and the control rod so that the latter can be moved under the control of the travel control lever in case of a failure of the electric system which comprises the sensors, the microcomputer and the servomotor.

Abstract: In a fuel injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which the fuel injection timing and the amount of fuel injection are controlled in response to a signal indicative of the operating condition of the engine, the maximum amount of fuel injection is determined in such a way that the engine torque determined by the maximum amount of fuel injection does not change even when the fuel injection timing is adjusted in accordance with the operating condition of the engine.

Abstract: A control arrangement for a fuel-injected supercharged internal engine and, in particular, a diesel engine, with the control arrangement including a fuel injection pump. A control unit is provided for adjusting a fuel output of the fuel injection pump in dependence upon the combustion air delivered to the supercharger. To optimize the measurement of combustion air, the control unit is adapted to be influenced by instantaneous operating parameters such as the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine and rotational speed of the supercharger.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a pump piston, defining a pump work chamber for generating an injection pressure; an electromagnetic control device for fixing the duration of supply during the supply stroke of the pump piston and a measuring device, which measures the return flow fuel quantity that did not attain injection during the supply stroke of the pump piston and emits an electronic return flow quantity signal (Q.sub.R). An electronic control unit imposes control signals (.phi..sub..mu.V) upon the control device as a function of the return flow quantity signal (Q.sub.R) and operating characteristics of the engine. To attain highly accurate closed-loop control of the fuel injection quantity, a fluctuation detector is provided, which detects fluctuations in the return flow quantity signal and emits the appearance of fluctuations over time in the form of detection signals (.phi..sub.A, .phi..sub.E, .phi..sub.1 -.phi..sub.4).

Abstract: A fuel injection timing control method for a diesel engine, wherein engine rotational speed and fuel injection quantity as a parameter value indicative of the engine load magnitude are detected. A desired value of the fuel injection timing based upon the detected engine rotational speed and fuel injection quantity is calculated by means of an electronic control unit. An injection timing control device operatively connected to the fuel injection pump of the engine is driven according to the calculated desired fuel injection timing value, so as to minimize the difference between the calculated desired fuel injection timing value and an actual value of the fuel injection timing, by means of the electronic control unit. The fuel injection quantity is detected from the output of an oxygen concentration sensor indicative of oxygen concentration in engine exhaust gases, to thereby precisely detect the engine load magnitude and enable accurate control of the fuel injection timing.

Abstract: A speed governor for engine includes a variation removing circuit responsive to an engine rotational speed signal indicative of the rotational speed of a diesel engine to remove a periodical variation component of the signal due to the pulsation of the output torque which the diesel engine generates, from the signal. The period of the variation to be removed by the variation removing circuit changes with the change of the rotational speed of the engine. The variation removing circuit may be formed of a sample-and-hold circuit or a variable characteristic filter of which the suppression frequency is variable.

Abstract: An injector system for injecting fuel and/or water into the combustion chamber of an engine cylinder having a high pressure pump with a primary piston for pumping fluid to an injector nozzle and plurality of integral control cylinders having means for discretely controlling the displacement of pistons in the control cylinders for altering the effective volume of fluid pumped by the primary cylinder, the fluid pumped hydraulically displacing an injector piston in the injector nozzle for displacing a nozzle discharge stem allowing a divergent spray of fuel and or water to enter the combustion chamber, wherein the high pressure pump includes an associated regulating mechanism for displacing at least one control cylinder piston according to an input derived from the operator's power demand and the engine r.p.m.

Abstract: In controlling a fuel injection quantity by an electromagnetic spill valve on-off operated at a target spill angle in accordance with an angle count number and a time count number of an engine rotation, based on the engine rotation angle signal outputted through a predetermined crank angle, the angle count number is set at a predetermined value during idling and time count is constantly started from one and the same point of on-off operate the electromagnetic spill valve. In consequence, the control of the fuel injection quantity does not fluctuate during idling irrespective of various factors of dispersion. On the other hand, during non-idling, the angle count number varying in association with the target spill angle is determined and the time count is started from the end point of the angle count number to control the electromagnetic spill valve. In consequence, an adverse influence suh as an engine stall is not rendered to the normal operating conditions.

Abstract: In a fuel injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which the fuel injection timing and the amount of fuel injection are controlled in response to a signal indicative of the operating condition of the engine, the maximum amunt of fuel injection is determined in such a way that the amount of smoke produced at the maximum fuel injection is equal to a predetermined limit value even when the fuel injection timing is adjusted in accordance with the operating condition of the engine.

Abstract: In an electronic governor for an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel injection pump having a control rack for adjusting fuel supply, a constant speed control signal Vnd for control to maintain the deviation of the actual speed N from a designated speed No within a permissible range, and a maximum rack position control signal VLd for control to maintain the deviation of the rack position from the maximum position for the particular speed N within a permissible range, are inputted into a control mode selector, which outputs the constant speed control signal Vnd when a speed detection signal Vn is not smaller than a designated speed signal Vno, or when the speed detection signal Vn is smaller than the designated speed signal Vno and the rack is below the maximum position, and outputs the maximum rack position control signal VLd when the speed detection signal Vn is smaller than the designated speed signal Vno and rack is above the maximum position.

Abstract: In an electronic governor for controlling an internal combustion engine in accordance with the operation of an accelerator pedal or a speed setting member, the governor mode for controlling the speed of the engine is automatically switched over between a first governor characteristic based on a first signal relating to the operation of the accelerator pedal or a second governor characteristic based on a second signal relating to the operation of the speed setting member, the switch-over being made in response to the condition of the second signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronically controlled fuel injection system for controlling a fuel quantity to be injected each cylinder of a diesel engine by a fuel injection pump (5), wherein a positioning servo system is employed which is arranged to calculate a control input value of an actuator (82) in accordance with a signal from an actual position sensor (84) and a signal from a fuel quantity control unit (2) so that the actual position of a fuel adjustment member (83) is coincident with a desired position thereof indicated by the signal from the control unit (2). The servo system comprises a minimum time control unit (7) and a speed estimation unit (9). The minimum time control unit (7) derives the control input value from a map established on the basis of the nonlinear dynamic model of the actuator (82) as a function of a deviation between the actual and desired positions, a current passing through the actuator (82) and a speed of the fuel adjustment member estimated by the speed estimation unit (9).

Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling an electroexpansive actuator, a high voltage is applied to the electroexpansive actuator at a non-load state after an expansion and contraction operation thereupon is completed.

Abstract: In a fuel amount control apparatus arranged to determine the amount of fuel to be fed to respective cylinders so that the scattering in torque generation throughout the cylinders is suppressed, the amount of correction which is either added to or subtracted from a basic fuel amount, is computed such that a sum total of fuel amount correction factors substantially equals zero. To this end the sum total of the correction factors is first computed and is then checked whether an absolute value of the sum total is greater than a predetermined value. When greater, a given amount is either added to or subtracted from correction factors respectively provided for respective cylinders.

Abstract: A transducer means for sensing the movement of a component between first and second extreme positions includes a transducer 18 the output of which is applied to one input terminal of a differential amplifier. The output of the amplifier is applied to one input of a comparator at the output of which appears the output signal. The other input of the comparator is a voltage obtained from a resistor chain connected to the outputs of first and second sample and hold circuits the first of which is connected to the output of the differential amplifier and the second of which is connected to a peak hold circuit. The other input of the differential amplifier is connected to an integrator which integrates the signal provided by the first sample and hold circuit.

Abstract: In a fuel injection control system which cuts off the fuel supply under certain zero-engine-load conditions, a single asynchronous fuel injection is performed immediately in response to a fuel resumption request. Fuel resumption is ordered when, for example, a throttle valve opens from its idling position or when engine speed drops too low. The single asynchronous fuel injection is performed immediately and with an enhanced fuel quantity to ensure prompt and adequate response to changing engine conditions. Normal, synchronous fuel injection timing is adjusted following fuel resumption to match, or at least not to interfere with, the timing of the asynchronous fuel injection.

Abstract: To provide for smooth operation of a fuel injected engine, typically a diesel engine, if the diesel engine is controlled to reduce speed and towards idling thereof, it is first determined if the actual speed (n) of the engine drops below a certain speed threshold (NS), the commanded speed (N), upon such sensed occurrence is evaluated and the time rate (1/K) of an exponential function of commanded rate of drop in engine speed is changed as a function of the decrease (dn/dt) of the actual speed of the engine. Engine temperature can be used to modify the speed threshold, and the rate of change can, additionally, be evaluated with respect to a predetermined rate of change of speed of the engine. A difference between commanded and actual speed, applied to a proportional-integral controller can be used with an offset which offset becomes effective only upon rise of engine speed after a prior drop.

Abstract: An rpm governor for fuel injection pumps of internal combustion engines, in which a control motor triggered via an electronic control unit processing parameters actuates a quantity control member of the injection pump via a pivotable governor lever. The governor lever is embodied in two parts, and the two parts are joined by a hinge and the lever part that is connected to the quantity control member is engaged by a spring in the direction of a decreasing injection quantity. The other lever part cooperates with the control motor and a pivot stop. As soon as the governor lever strikes the stop, the hinge yields, causing a change in the lever ratio and thus in the adjusting movement between the control motor and the quantity control member.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed having a rotating distributor, which is axially adjusted by an electromagnetic final control element counter to the force of a restoring spring. The force of the restoring spring is transmitted via an intermediate ring onto a collar of an armature serving as a coupling element, with the armature being provided with an axial recess into which a fitting part of the core of the electromagnet can plunge when magnetic force is applied.

Abstract: The speed to be measured, either engine speed or vehicle (drive wheel) speed, is measured by a tachogenerator which trips a timer to provide a series of measurements. When the system is in use, a driver can store the actual speed at a selected moment as the desired speed. From a linearized model of vehicle speed or engine speed response to acceleration or deceleration of the engine by displacement of a control member, system parameters a.sub.1 and b.sub.1 are derived. The actual speed signal is multiplied by a.sub.1 and added algebraically (to produce a difference signal) to the desired speed signal, with the resulting signal then being multiplied by another constant derived from the system parameter b.sub.1 by reference to weighting factors p and q of a cost minimizing equation relating to the relative significance of obtaining a small control deviation and of limiting or increasing the amplitude of the control signal. An output signal is then provided by the second multiplying stage.

Abstract: In a diesel engine control system, an intake air density compensation system is provided for compensating the control amounts of a diesel engine in accordance with the variations of intake air density. The variation amount of the intake air density is indicated by the difference between the control input amount obtained in accordance with an ignition timing closed loop control and the control amount obtained in accordance with an ignition open loop control. The various control amounts of the diesel engine is compensated on the basis of the difference so that the diesel engine is ensured to be optimally operated irrespective of the variations of intake air density.

Abstract: In an electronic governor for an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel injection pump having a control rack for adjusting fuel supply, an accelerator position signal Vs and a speed detection signal Vn are inputted into a speed deviation operation circuit for producing a speed deviation signal, which is integrated by an intergrator. The integral signal from the integrator is used for controlling the rack. The integral signal is also inputted into a droop operation circuit producing a droop factor signal Va whose magnitude is proportional to the intergral signal. The speed deviation operation circuit produces, as the speed deviation signal, a signal corresponding to Vn-(Vs+Va) or Vn-(Vs-Va).

Abstract: Fuel amount control apparatus arranged to determine the amount of fuel to be fed to respective cylinder so that the scattering in torque generation throughout the cylinders is suppressed. Correction amounts are first obtained during idling, and these correction amounts are then modified using at least one engine parameter so that they can be used not only in idle state but also other operating states. To this end, a correction factor is computed using engine speed or the like so as to modify the correction amounts thereby. As a result, a basic fuel amount is corrected by correction factors provided for respective cylinders where the correction factors are further modified to be suitable for any engine operating conditions, providing smooth rotation without uncomfortable vibrations.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a correcting arrangement for a fuel metering apparatus of an internal combustion engine by means of which permanent offsets of the positioning control loop of the fuel metering apparatus of the internal combustion engine are corrected. This is accomplished in that at a specific load condition of the internal combustion engine, preferably in the overrun mode of operation subsequent to the idle speed control characteristic, the actually injected fuel quantity which is a diesel engine, for example, is preferably measured by means of the movement of the nozzle needle of the injection valve of the fuel metering apparatus, is checked to a known value, in the example cited preferably for zero value, and in that the result of this check is used to influence the control system of the fuel metering apparatus of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A rotary magnet having a transducer for fuel regulation of a fuel injection pump which requires a minimum of structural space while having a maximum of adjustment force.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, which is embodied as a radial-piston/distributor pump, having an axially fixed and rotationally driven distributor, on the end of which that is remote from the drive and protrudes freely out of the distributor cylinder guiding the distributor an annular slide is disposed, which can be both rotated and axially displaced by means of adjusting drives. Both the quantity adjustment and control of the instant of injection are effected in a electrically controlled manner by relief openings provided on the distributor and control openings which are provided on the annular slide. All of the foregoing can be effected precisely on the end of the distributor which is free of moment.

Abstract: Information relating to relative fuel pump camshaft advance angle is compared with a SOC signal indicative of the start of combustion in a reference cylinder to generate an adaptive trim table which is used, in a first control scheme to calculate an actual combustion angle for closed loop control over combustion timing only in the event of a loss of the SOC signal. In an alternate control scheme, the values from the adaptive trim table are always used to calculate the actual combustion angle for closed loop control.

Abstract: Disclosed is a jolt damping circuit for use in fuel metering systems of an internal combustion engine having self-ignition. The jolt damping circuit includes a guide regulator, a device for generating a jolt disturbance signal in dependency on the rotary speed of the engine, and means for combining the output signal from the guide generator and from the jolt disturbance signal generator to produce a desired value setting signal applicable to regulating means for the setting member of a fuel injection pump. The jolt damping circuit is directly connectable into a standard fuel metering system of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling fuel injection timing, for use in a fuel injection pump of a diesel engine, comprises a toothed wheel coaxially and fixedly mounted on a drive shaft of the fuel injection pump, first and second detectors for detecting the rotational position of the tooth wheel, and a control unit, having a microcomputer, for actuating a fuel injection timing changer of the pump according to the phase difference between signals from the first and second rotational position detectors for controlling fuel injection timing. The first rotational position detector is fixedly mounted on a pump housing and the second rotational position detector is fixedly mounted on a member rotatably provided around the drive shaft of the pump. The member is generally used for converting the rotational movement of the drive shaft to the reciprocation of a plunger of the pump which supplies fuel into cylinders of the engine. The phase difference corresponds to the actual injection timing condition.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for controlling the quantity of fuel to be injected into an internal combustion engine. The arrangement includes at least one electrically operated control device determining the beginning and/or the end and/or the duration of the injection of fuel into the internal combustion engine. The electrically operated control device is influenced in dependence on its own control response. The arrangement of the invention thus makes it possible to correct the error resulting from variations in the pickup and dropout times of the electrically operated control device. Embodiments are described which take into account static and dynamic variations of the control response of the electrically operated control device.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine includes sensors for sensing the reference rotational position of the engine, a unit injector for compressing the fuel and injecting a predetermined amount of the fuel, and an electronic control device. The unit injector includes an actuator such as a piezoelectric actuator, a piston, and an injection valve. The piezoelectric actuator comprises a columnar laminated body of disk-shaped piezoelectric elements. The laminated body is expanded or compressed in the axial direction of the column according to the application of a positive or a negative high voltage. The electronic control device controls the frequency of the voltage supplied to the actuator during the period from the timing of a reference rotational position and controls, accordingly, the amount of fuel injection in accordance with the frequency of the voltage supplied to the actuator.

Abstract: An electronically controlled fuel-injection system for an internal combustion engine, wherein fuel injection control pulses drive associated fuel injectors for delivering fuel to the internal combustion engine. A fuel pump delivers fuel from an associated fuel tank to the fuel injectors and a pressure regulator associated with the fuel tank maintains a pressure differential across the fuel injectors. Exhaust back pressure from the internal combustion engine is applied to the pressure regulator, such that the pressure differential across the fuel injectors varies in response to pressure changes in exhaust back pressure. A linear relationship between exhaust back pressure and the pressure differential across the fuel injectors provides an inexpensive and accurate electronic fuel injection control system.

Abstract: In a diesel for a hydraulic excavator or the like, the speed regulator of the injection pump is set by a lever which is pivoted by a piston-cylinder unit against the force of a return spring. Before or during operation under load, the piston-cylinder unit brings the setting lever to a preselected load position and, after terminating or interrupting operation under load, moves it to its idling position. At least one handle of the control levers for the hydraulically movable implements of the excavator is provided with a switch which, on first actuation, so operates a magnetic valve that the piston cylinder unit or the return spring moves the setting lever to the load position and, on being actuated again, returns the setting lever to the idling position.

Abstract: In a fuel injection apparatus for multi-cylinder engines, the apparatus has a signal generator for generating an electric signal representing an operating condition of the engine, a decision circuit for determining the cylinder or cylinders of the engine to be used in accordance with the electric signal, a control device which is responsive to the output of the decision circuit and selects the cylinder or cylinders of the engine to which fuel injected from a fuel injection pump is to be supplied, and a control circuit for regulating the control of the amount of fuel injection from the fuel injection pump on the basis of a governor characteristic determined in accordance with the output of the decision circuit, whereby the engine can be operated in the skip-cylinder mode more stably than in the case of the conventional apparatus.

Abstract: In an control apparatus for controlling a timing of injection of fuel to be injected into an internal combustion engine, the apparatus comprises a closed loop system in which the data showing the actual timing of injection of of fuel is fed back. When the condition of the operation of the engine becomes a predetermined state, the control system is changed from the closed loop system to another system in which an adjusting member for adjusting the timing of injection of fuel is controlled by a signal which is not related to the actual timing of injection. As a result, the stability of the operation in low engine speed zone is remarkably improved.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the engine of a hydraulically driven vehicle includes a transmission mechanism having a loose spring and connecting a fuel control lever operationally to a governor control lever, a decelerator cylinder including a spring having a slightly larger spring force than the loose spring and disposed on the opposite side of a piston from a hydraulic fluid chamber and a piston rod connected to the transmission mechanism by a yoke having a slot, an electromagnetic valve for supplying a hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump driven by the engine to the hydraulic fluid chamber in the decelerator cylinder or interrupting its supply, and an electric circuit for opening or closing the electromagnetic valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distributor pump type is proposed, in which the fuel quantity is governed with the aid of an annular slide displaceable on the pump piston. The annular slide is shifted by an electromechanical final control element. The shifting is effected via a shaft to which a connecting element is connected with an eccentricity (E); the connecting element is coupled to the annular slide. For balancing the mass of the thus eccentrically articulated annular slide, a counterweight is secured on the shaft.

Abstract: A method for controlling the fuel injection amount and timing for a Diesel engine by use of an electronic control unit having a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM in which the data corresponding to the steps of the method according to present invention have been preliminarily stored in the ROM, the steps Principally comprising: (i) detecting the engine speed, (ii) calculating a basic maximum fuel injection amount in accordance with the engine speed sought in the above step, (iii) detecting the intensity of the burning flame light in the combustion chamber of the engine, (iv) and correcting the basic maximum fuel injection amount calculated in the above step in accordance with the intensity of the burning flame light sought in the previous step. With this construction of the method and apparatus according to the present invention, optimum fuel injection amount and timing control can be realized in accordance with the change in altitude and/or the change in atmospheric pressure, i.e.

Abstract: A plunger pump wherein the plunger is reciprocable in a barrel by a tappet which is coupled to the plunger by a pressure member. The tappet is reciprocable by a rotary cam in conjunction with a coil spring and is movable axially of the plunger by a first drive having a sleeve surrounding the barrel and having jaws in engagement with complementary jaws of the pressure member. Rotation of the pressure member in response to rotation of the sleeve entails axial movement of the tappet because the latter has threads in mesh with complementary threads of the pressure member whereby the tappet changes the length of forward and return strokes of the plunger. The latter has a control edge which can regulate the volume of outflowing liquid in response to rotation of the plunger on actuation of a second drive having a second rotary sleeve with jaws engaging complementary jaws of the plunger.

Abstract: In a method for electronically controlling the fuel supply to an internal combustion engine in response to operating conditions of the engine, fuel quantities are summed up, which are supplied to the engine after fulfillment of a predetermined condition for cutting off the fuel supply to the engine which is determined by engine operation parameters indicative of operating conditions of the engine, and when the sum of the fuel quantities exceeds a predetermined value, the fuel supply to the engine is cut off, thereby preventing deterioration of the driveability of the engine, burning of a catalyst provided in the engine for purifying exhaust gases, etc. at fuel cut operation of the engine.

Abstract: In an electronically controlled fuel injection apparatus having a fuel injection pump with a fuel regulating member, computing unit for calculating target data relating to a target amount of fuel injection in response to an engine condition signal, the computing unit comprises first circuit for performing two dimensional map calculation in response to the engine condition condition signal so as to obtain plural sets of data pairs of position data of the fuel regulating member and the corresponding engine speed data, and second circuit responsive to the speed data for carrying out an interpolation calculation on the basis of the plural sets of data pairs in order to obtain data relating to the target amount of fuel injection at the engine speed at each instant. The interpolation calculation can be accomplished merely by a two dimensional interpolation calculation so that the time required for calculating the target amount of fuel injection can be remarkably reduced.

Abstract: An improved fuel injection system of the type in which the fuel injection timing and the fuel injection rate vary with the plunger pre-stroke which is regulated by displacing a control sleeve slidably fitted on a plunger reciprocating at a non-uniform speed and in which the actual injection quantity varies with the pre-stroke. The fuel injection system comprise an engine operating condition sensor, a pre-stroke control means, and a control sleeve driving means that cooperate to adjust the plunger pre-stroke. The amount of pre-stroke is detected by a position sensor. The position sensor and the engine operating condition sensor deliver respective outputs to a correction arithmetic means which computes the amount of deviation and thereby the amount of correction based on the outputs delivered.

Abstract: A fuel control system (10 or 70) includes a hydraulic servo system (17) for moving a fuel rack (15) in response to movement of a rack control member (16). A brushless direct current torque motor (50), having a rotor (51) and a control lever (53) fixed thereto, is arranged with its lever end (54) confined between opposed shoulders (41, 42) on the rack control member (16). Electronically energized movement of the rotor (51) and its control lever (53) in one direction, or spring (56) biased movement in the other, causes corresponding movement of the control member (16) and fuel rack (15). A second control lever (99), movable by a mechanical governor control (80), is engageable with another shoulder (104) on the rack control member (16) to move it in a fuel-decreasing direction.

Abstract: For the purpose of identification of a combustion chamber producing undesirable hunting in a fuel injection combustion engine, the duration of injection of a defined injection valve is changed in such a manner that additional hunting is caused, and from the crank angle interval (KW) between the additional and the undesirable hunting, is derived, taking into account the rotational speed n of the engine, an identification signal for the combustion chamber to be identified. The identification signal is utilized to change the fuel injection time for the combustion chamber causing the uneveness to eliminate the latter.

Abstract: In a Diesel engine with a Bosch-type fuel pump or the like having a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity, idling speed is controlled by a movable stopper which abuts the control lever to place a lower limit on fuel injection quantity during idling. A control unit derives a target idling speed value according to engine temperature, electrical load, etc. and controls the pneumatic actuator of the stopper in accordance with the difference between actual engine speed during idling and the target idling speed. When the engine is not idling, the pneumatic actuator may be controlled to act as a dashpot, damping the return of the control lever to its idling position. Electromagnetically controlled valves respond to the control unit by providing atmospheric pressure or negative pressure to the pneumatic actuator. An auxiliary valve is provided for bypassing a defective atmospheric pressure supplying valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for in internal combustion engine includes a solenoid valve disposed across a fuel passage defined in a fuel injection pump and actuatable under the control of a control circuit for controlling the fuel injection quantity and the fuel injection timing. The actual fuel injection quantity is detected by a sensor disposed in the solenoid valve and fed back to the electric circuit where it is compared with the objective fuel injection quantity determined on the basis of engine operating conditions. If there is a difference, the fuel injection quantity supplied to the internal combustion engine through the solenoid valve is changed by the control circuit in a measured manner which will tend to make this difference disappear. The control of the fuel injection timing can be achieved by the system substantially the same manner as described above. The sensor comprises an electric on-off switch defined jointly by a valve seat and a valve element of the solenoid valve.

Abstract: A method of and system for controlling a hydraulic power system comprising an internal combustion engine receiving a supply of fuel from a fuel injection pump, and at least one variable displacement hydraulic pump driven by the internal combustion engine. An engine speed deviation is obtained from the difference between a target speed set by an accelerator operation of the internal combustion engine and an output speed thereof. Then a fuel injection target value in predetermined functional relation to the engine speed deviation, is obtained based on at least the engine speed deviation, and a fuel injection rate of the fuel injection pump is controlled based on the fuel injection target value.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is described wherein a plunger is rotatingly and reciprocally movable in an enclosure to define a compression chamber which is connected to a fuel inlet during an intake stroke of the plunger and to a fuel outlet during a compression stroke thereby to initiate injection of fuel to the outlet. A solenoid valve is responsive to a voltage applied from a voltage source for providing a pressure relief action on the fuel in the compression chamber. A control unit is responsive to the onset of fuel injection to determine a basic timing at which fuel is to be terminated and corrects the basic timing as a function of the source voltage to compensate for a voltage variation thereof which would otherwise affect on the operation of the solenoid valve. The solenoid valve is then energized at the corrected timing.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine has a circuit for producing a signal corresponding to the difference between the actual engine speed and the target engine speed and a processor for weighting this signal by a factor that continuously changes according to the magnitude of the difference. The weighted signal is converted to a control signal for adjusting the speed of the engine.

Abstract: A gas-diesel dual fuel engine operative with both a gaseous fuel and a diesel fuel oil. The engine has an electronic governor circuit adapted to receive both a speed signal representing actual speed of engine and a set speed signal representing a predetermined command speed of the engine, electric actuators adapted to actuate a diesel fuel injection pump and a gaseous fuel regulating valve, respectively, in response to the signal from the electronic governor circuit, and a mode switching control circuit connected to the electronic governor circuit and adapted to switch the operation of the electric actuators between a diesel fuel operation mode and a gaseous fuel operation mode.