Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the timing of fuel injection into a diesel engine, including means for computing a target time at which injection should occur and means for sensing when injection actually occurs, with respect to a reference crankshaft position, feedback control means for adjusting the actual injection time to bring this into coincidence with the target injection time, means for sensing when firing of fuel within an engine cylinder actually occurs and for computing a target firing time based on the current operating status of the engine. A compensation factor is computed based on the difference between the actual and target firing times, and is utilized to modify the actual fuel injection time such as to bring the actual and target firing times into coincidence.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injection quantity control system incorporated with a fuel injection pump with a solenoid-operated spill valve wherein a control signal is generated for cutting off a fuel supply to engine cylinders when a rotational phase angle of a drive shaft of the fuel injection pump is coincident with a desired spill phase angle determined in accordance with engine operating conditions. The desired spill phase angle, i.e., the opening timing of the spill valve is controlled in accordance with the rotational variations of the fuel injection pump. The desired spill phase angle is divided by unit angle corresponding to a detection period of rotational angle signals produced in accordance with the rotation of the pump drive shaft, obtaining a quotient and a remainder angle. The remainder angle is converted into a time on the basis of an engine speed.

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: A fuel injection arrangement for a diesel engine. An overflow passage for high pressure fuel is provided in the engine's fuel injection pump. A solenoid valve is disposed in the overflow passage for controlling the fuel injection amount through its on-off operation. The time when the fuel injection pump starts injecting fuel is detected by an injection start detector. To this injection starting time point is added a target injection period to determine an injection end time. At this injection end time the solenoid valve is opened to discontinue the fuel injection. The target injection period is determined according to operating conditions of the engine. Since this apparatus detects the actual injection start point and controls the injection period on the basis of the result of the detection, the fuel injection amount can be controlled extremely accurately.

Abstract: In a diesel engine controlling system having a fuel injection pump, a fuel injection timing adjusting device is controlled by a drive pulse signal whose duty cycle is controlled by a microcomputer. The duty cycle is determined such that a basic duty cycle obtained by using engine rotational speed and injection quantity, is modified or corrected by way of a correction factor and a forecast correction factor. The-first mentioned correction factor comprises an integration component and a proportional component both derived from the difference between a measured fuel injection or ignition timing and a desired or reference fuel injection or ignition timing, which is calculated by using the engine rotational speed and the injection quantity. The forecast correction factor corresponds to a differential value of the basic duty cycle or the desired fuel injection or ignition timing.

Abstract: In a fuel injection system which electrically controls an amount of pressurized fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine, an electromagnetic valve which opens to inject the pressurized fuel is disposed at an upstream of a throttle valve in an intake pipe so that a group of cylinders of the engine is supplied with fuel therefrom. A pressure regulator is provided to regulate a pressure of the pressurized fuel in proportion to an intake pressure present at a downstream of the throttle valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection device for Diesel engines includes a combustion detector comprising a photoelectric transducer and a light path extended through a nozzle body to transmit the light of a combustion flame developed in an engine cylinder to the photoelectric transducer. One end of the light path is opened to an oil sump communicating with a nozzle opening so that only when the nozzle opening is opened for injecting fuel and then a combustion flame is developed, the light of the flame is passed through the light path and reaches the photoelectric transducer thereby generating an electric signal indicative of the actual time of the combustion. The whole or part of the light path may be comprised of optical fibers.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing information for an agricultural work machine comprising a distance detector which detects the distance travelled by an agricultural vehicle, a fuel consumption detector, which detects the amount of fuel consumed by the engine of the agricultural vehicle, a circuit for inputting the working width of the agricultural vehicle, an operating circuit for calculating fuel consumption rate indicative of the amount of fuel consumed per unit working area, and a display for displaying the calculated information. The fuel consumption detector may be replaced with a timer which detects the working time of the agricultural vehicle so that working efficiency may be obtained in place of the fuel consumption rate. The total area to be worked may be input in order to estimate the time of completion of the agricultural work or the fuel consumption rate at the time of completion of the work.

Abstract: The intake pressure and temperature of a Diesel engine equipped with a supercharger are sensed and the sensed intake pressure value is divided by the sensed intake temperature value to obtain an intake density. A value indicative of the intake density is divided by a value indicative of the air-excess ratio computed in accordance with the operating condition of the engine producing a smoke-limit injection amount. The smoke-limit injection amount is compared with the injection amount corresponding to a part-load condition of the engine and the smaller one of the values is applied to a linear solenoid for controlling the fuel injection amount adjusting member in the fuel injection pump of the engine.

Abstract: An electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump comprises a fuel flow sensor for detecting the net quantity of fuel supplied to the fuel injection pump, operating condition sensors for detecting operating condition parameters of an engine, a servo device for driving a fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump which controls the fuel injection quantity of the fuel injection pump, and an electric control circuit for receiving detection signals from the fuel flow sensor and the operating condition sensors, computing the actual fuel injection quantity and the desired fuel injection quantity, and determining an error between the computed actual fuel injection quantity and desired fuel injection quantity to drive the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump through the servo device in accordance with an error representing signal, thereby controlling the actual fuel injection quantity at the desired fuel injection quantity.

Abstract: An electrical governor for a fuel injection pump with a spill ring comprises an acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) detector, an engine rotational speed (N) detector, a spill ring displacement detector, a maximum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the engine rotational speed (N) and the maximum smoke concentration generating injection amount (Qmax), a partial load injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the partial load injection amount (Qpar) corresponding to the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) with the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) as a parameter, a minimum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the minimum limit injection amount (Qmin), a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the target injection amount (Qf) and the spill ring displacement target position (V.sub.

Abstract: An optimum control method for internal combustion engines uses the values of an engine control variable, such as engine timing, which are arranged in a map and stored in a memory. During normal operation, the engine is operated in accordance with one of the mapped engine control variable values related to engine operating conditions. During a fuel consumption minimization operation, the mapped engine control variable value is changed by an incremented amount to operate the engine therewith, and the mapped engine control variable value is replaced by the changed engine control variable value, if it is detected that the change by the incremented amount is in a direction to reduce the fuel consumption rate of the engine. This optimum engine control method can compensate for changes in the characteristics of engines caused during the manufacture or caused by changes over time during their operation, thereby ensuring the operation of an engine at a minimum rate of fuel consumption.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling angular position of optical axis of a head lamp assembly for a motor vehicle. An actuator is supplied selectively with the atmospheric pressure and a negative pressure available from an intake conduit of an internal combustion engine thereby to produce corresponding mechanical displacements. A detector for detecting the angular position of the optical axis of the head lamp assembly responds to the mechanical displacements of the actuator to change-over successively the contact states of a plurality of paired electric contacts. A command unit for setting the angular position of the optical axis of the head lamp assembly is provided which includes a plurality of paired electric contacts connected in one-to-one correspondence to the paired contacts of the optical axis position detector. A signal for setting the optical axis of the head lamp assembly is produced in dependence on the contact states of the optical axis position detector.

Abstract: A knocking detector for an internal combustion engine includes a vibration unit comprising an inertial mass member and springs which are mounted in a housing attached to an engine body. The spring constants of the springs are so selected that the resonant frequency of the vibration unit becomes substantilly equal to the frequency of vibration due to knocking of the engine, and the vibration of the vibration unit is detected and converted into an electric signal.

Abstract: An injection pump control system comprises a plurality of pressure feed mechanisms each thereof including inner cams, pump plungers, etc., and provided in a rotor, a separate fuel inlet passage provided for each pressure feed mechanism, an electromagnetic valve provided for each fuel inlet passage to open and close the same, an electric control circuit for making the number of open-close operations of each electromagnetic valve equal to the number of operations of each pressure feed mechanism and for controlling the duration of opening of the electromagnetic valves in accordance with the operating conditions of an engine.

Abstract: In a carburetor, a heating device comprises a honeycomb heater element disposed within at least one of fuel and air passages of the carburetor to heat the fuel and/or air passing therethrough, the honeycomb heater element being made of a ceramic composition to have a positive temperature coefficient of resistance and being connected at the opposite ends thereof with an electric power source across an ignition switch of the engine, whereby the liquid fuel and/or air is heated by the heating device when the temperature of the liquid fuel or the air is lower than a critical temperature defined by the ceramic composition of the heater element.

Abstract: A function signal having a desired characteristic curve is generated through the logical operation on a vehicle speed signal indicative of the speed of a vehicle, a ratio signal indicative of the air-to-fuel of the mixture supplied to the engine mounted on the vehicle, and a pressure signal indicative of the pressure in the intake manifold of the engine. The position of an electromagnetic valve for adjusting the amount of fuel supplied to the engine is controlled in response to the function signal, thereby controlling the air-to-fuel of mixtures in accordance with the various driving conditions of the vehicle including the vehicle speed.

Abstract: A fuel control system for controlling the supply of fuel to a gas turbine engine in all the engine operating ranges including the acceleration, deceleration and part-load operations. The fuel control system comprises load control signal generating means and idling control signal generating means for detecting the operating parameters of a gas turbine engine and generating a load control signal and an idling control signal each corresponding to the proper fuel feed quantity under load conditions and idling conditions, respectively, and an upper limit selection circuit for selecting greater one of the signals from the two means and generating a fuel control signal for commanding the proper fuel feed quantity.

Abstract: A desired function signal is provided by a logical circuit which selects one of a signal corresponding to the speed of a vehicle carrying an internal combustion engine, a signal corresponding to the intake pressure, a signal corresponding to the air-to-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the engine, and a signal corresponding to the opening of a throttle valve in accordance with the driving conditions of the vehicle. The amount of additional intake air flowing through an additional intake system provided in the engine is controlled in accordance with the desired function signal, thus providing an air-fuel mixture ratio which suits the driving conditions of the vehicle, the running speed of the vehicle in particular.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine wherein the torque developed by an internal combustion engine is detected to provide optimum control of the ignition timing of the engine and thereby to ensure an improved engine efficiency as well as an improved fuel economy. The system comprises an engine torque detector for detecting the torque developed by the engine, a signal generator for generating signals used to periodically change the ignition timing of the engine, a phase discriminator for discriminating the phase relation between the output signals of the engine torque detector and the periodic change signal generator, and ignition timing control means for controlling the ignition timing in response to the output of the phase discriminator.