Abstract: Disclosed is a sensor for spectrometric analysis of a variable-pressure gaseous fuel for automotive vehicle intended to be mounted in the flow circuit for the fuel linking the fuel tank to the engine of the vehicle. The sensor includes a circulation pipe for the variable-pressure gaseous fuel, a sliding guidance tube for an optical flux and a unit for displacement of the sliding guidance tube, on the basis of the variable-pressure gaseous fuel tapped off from the circulation pipe, so as to adapt the distance separating the first window from the second window as a function of the variation in pressure of the variable-pressure gaseous fuel circulating in the circulation pipe.

Abstract: An engine system and a method of starting an internal combustion engine of the engine system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes adjusting a fuel pressure within a fuel rail to a first value; after the fuel pressure within the fuel rail attains the first value, initiating delivery of fuel to the internal combustion engine from the fuel rail by successively injecting fuel directly into combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine; and after at least a first fuel injection event, reducing the fuel pressure within the fuel rail from the first value to a second value over subsequent successive fuel injection events by adjusting an operating parameter of the high pressure fuel pump. The method may optionally include increasing an air-fuel ratio over subsequent successive fuel injection events after fuel delivery is initiated by varying an amount of fuel that is directly injected into the combustion chambers.

Abstract: A fuel control system includes a pressure comparison module that generates a pressure control signal when a fuel supply pressure is greater than a predetermined pressure value, a temperature comparison module that generates a temperature control signal when a temperature of an engine is greater than a predetermined temperature value, and a pre-crank fuel module that selectively dispenses pre-crank fuel prior to cranking the engine based on the pressure control signal and the temperature control signal. A related fuel control method is also provided.

Abstract: A fuel injection priming system includes a fuel supply line connected to a fuel supply rail. A plurality of piezoelectric fuel injectors are connected to the fuel supply rail. An injector return fuel line is connected to the fuel injectors and in communication with a fuel supply line via a diverter device to allow high pressure fuel from the fuel supply line to pressurize the injector return fuel line to backfill the injectors during a priming operation. A one-way valve is in communication with the diverter device to manage the pressurized fuel provided to the plurality of fuel injectors during the priming operation and to allow fuel to pass to the fuel tank during normal operation.

Abstract: A fuel injection system (60) is provided for an internal combustion engine (62). The engine has a plurality of cylinders (70). The system includes a plurality of fuel injectors (10?) constructed and arranged to receive fuel. One fuel injector is associated with a cylinder for injecting fuel into the associated cylinder. Each fuel injector has a valve body (14), a fuel volume V, and a coil (50) to inductively heat the valve body and thus heat fuel in the fuel volume to vaporize the fuel prior to injection into the associated cylinder. A cold start fuel injector (10, 10?) is disposed in an air supply passage (72) that supplies air to the cylinders. The cold start fuel injector has a valve body (14), a fuel volume (V) and a coil (50) to inductively heat the valve body to vaporize the fuel in the fuel volume prior to injection into the supply passage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a constant flow fuel injection system for an engine, the system comprising an engine control unit, a variable DC brushless motor fuel pump, and a constant orifice fuel injector, wherein the engine control unit drives the fuel pump to provide fuel pressure to the fuel injector by modulating the fuel pump pressure to vary the fuel flow rate to the fuel injector.

Abstract: During the starting, a) the temperature (T) of the engine and the pressure (P) of the fuel delivered by said pressurizing means are monitored, b) if T is below a predetermined threshold temperature (Ts), an engine starting mode is established in which the engine is started with fuel at high pressure as soon as the pressure (P) becomes higher than a predetermined threshold pressure (Ps1), and c) an engine starting mode is established where the engine is started using fuel at low pressure if T>Ts.

Abstract: In the proposed fuel injection pump of the radial-piston pump type, the fuel injection rate can be controlled exactly by means of an electrically controlled valve which monitors a relief channel (66) of the pump working space (53) and which, by means of its closing time, determines the period of high-pressure injection during the pump-piston feed strokes. In order utilize the total length of the flanks of the drive cams as efficiently as possible, additionally injection adjustment is carried out as a result of the rotation of an essentially stationary part (13, 33) of the cam drive of the pump pistons (37) of the fuel injection pump relative to the rotary-driven part (8,9) of this cam drive. At the same time, on a fuel injection pump with a rotary-driven cam ring (9), there is a separation between a roller-carrying part (13) and a part (33) carrying pistons (37).

Abstract: A method and a fuel injection system for supplying fuel to a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition is proposed. The fuel injection system includes metering valves, downstream of which regulating valves are disposed and at one side of which the fuel pressure downstream of the metering valves prevails and on the other side of which the fuel pressure in a control pressure line prevails. The control pressure line communicates with the fuel supply line and is limited by a control throttle and a return-flow throttle; from it, a branch line leads to an electromagnetic supplementary injection valve, by way of which further fuel, in addition to the fuel injected via injection valves, can be injected. The triggering of the supplementary injection valve can be effected by an electronic control unit for injecting fuel during cold starting of the engine or in the presence of a measurement signal characterizing an acceleration of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which serves to supply fuel to an internal combustion engine. The fuel injection system includes a metering and quantity distributing valve connected with regulating valves, which can be acted upon by the fuel pressure in a differential pressure control line. Communicating with a fuel supply line are a pressure limiting valve and a switch member, the latter having a switch diaphragm which is displaceable into a return flow chamber by the fuel pressure counter to a switch spring and a closing spring. Upon this displacement, via a tappet, a spring plate resting on the switch diaphragm opens a sealing valve, which rests at the mouth of an outflow line, which via a control throttle leads to the differential pressure control line. The pressure limiting valve is located upstream of the sealing valve. The return flow chamber is arranged to communicate with the fuel container via a return flow line.

Abstract: A continuously operating fuel injection installation which includes an air-quantity measuring device in the suction pipe and a fuel-quantity distributor controlled thereby, is equipped for use with a multi-cylinder aircraft engine, with an auxiliary device that serves to achieve the best possible power output, fuel economy and flight safety; for that purpose, a height control pressure regulator is connected to the control pressure line leading to the fuel-quantity distributor in parallel to a warm-up regulator, which meters the control pressure and therewith the fuel admixture corresponding to the air density changing with temperature and pressure; by interconnecting a fixed throttle between the control pressure line and the fuel return line to the fuel tank, an emergency operation of the engine is assured in case of failure of both regulators.

Abstract: An apparatus for the air-injection of liquid gas into the intake tube of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes a vaporizer pressure regulating valve, downstream of which a metering valve having a metering piston is proposed, which being movable in a guide bore opens a metering opening to a greater or lesser extent. The adjustment of the metering piston is effected in accordance with the quantity of air aspirated by the engine as determined by an air flow rate meter, as a result of which a quantity of liquid gas corresponding to the aspirated air quantity can be metered.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine continuously injects fuel into the intake air stream for each cylinder or other combustion zone. The fuel metering for each other combustion zone is performed by a metering unit individually serving that zone and responsive to a control pressure the value of which is dependent on various engine conditions so that the rate of fuel injection meets engine requirements. A cold idle feature provides an enhanced idle fuel rate of flow following start up of a cold engine. The system may be designed to retain system pressure for a long time after stopping the engine to prevent vapor lock and there are no atmospheric vents anywhere in the system so there are no evaporative emissions to contend with during running or shut down of the system.

Abstract: It is proposed for a fuel metering system that a final control element be triggered with a regulated direct-current signal having clock components dependent on operating characteristics of an internal combustion engine in order to influence a fuel metering means. A further proposal is that the acceleration enrichment be triggered during starting. In this manner the desired starting enrichment is obtained by way of the sum of the post-starting, warm-up and acceleration enrichment. The acceleration enrichment per se begins beyond a predetermined air flow gradient and then has a steady course up to a maximum value. This subject is disclosed in combination with a continuously operating injection system, in which a corresponding overall control signal is prepared in a control unit and delivered to an electrohydraulic final control element.

Abstract: A housed valve is proposed which serves in particular as a metering and distribution valve for a fuel injection system of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition. The valve includes a control slide with a control edge and at least two control slits. The control edge opens the control slits to a greater or lesser extent depending on the relative movement between the control slide and the control slits. A helical spring is supported on one control slide end, the end of the spring oriented toward the control slide being bent at an angle and arranged to protrude into an opening of the control slide end, while the other end of the spring is connected in a twist-free manner with the valve housing.

Abstract: A fuel-injected internal combustion engine wherein fuel is injected in dependence upon a quantity or volume of air supplied to the engine. A throttle valve controls the airflow rate with an O.sub.2 probe, arranged in an exhaust manifold, controlling a timing valve through a control device for enabling a timed relief of injection pressure of the fuel. An ignition starter switch is connected to the control device in such a manner that the timing valve is fully open during an operation of the ignition starter switch so as to enable a starting boost. An adjustable timing member is coupled to an operating switch provided in the control device, which operating switch closes automatically after a termination of the starting process. The timing member maintains the timing valve in a fully open position during a specific time span so as to provide for an after-start boost.

Abstract: A control apparatus is proposed for a fuel metering system of an internal combustion engine having at least one additively functioning warmup enrichment circuit. The apparatus is characterized in that the additive enrichment can be reduced during overrunning. The purpose of this feature is to maintain the cleanest possible exhaust gas even during the warmup phase during overrunning. This is attained, for instance, by means of a logical linkage of an overrunning recognition signal and the output signal of an additively functioning correction circuit for the metering signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection system designed to supply fuel to a mixture compressing externally ignited internal combustion engine. The fuel injection system comprises an air metering member which is displaceable in a suction tube in accordance with the air flow rate and which displaces the movable part of a fuel metering valve in opposition to a resetting force which is produced by fuel operative in a pressure chamber into which projects an effective face of the movable part of the metering valve. The fuel is metered at the fuel metering valve under a specific pressure difference determined by the regulating valve means, the regulating valve means being influenced by the pressure in a control pressure line in which the pressure chamber is also disposed.

Abstract: A continuous fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel metering valve 7 operating at a controlled pressure difference between chambers 13,14, the pressure difference being automatically adjusted by a regulating valve 17 including a diaphragm 18 separating two chambers 19,20. Chamber 20 is connected to relief 60 via a movable valve element 35 and the second chamber 19 is connected to the pressure upstream of the metering valve. The pressure difference is determined by a spring system acting on the diaphragm 18 including a stronger spring 33 which acts directly on the diaphragm and a weaker spring 34 which acts as a contact spring holding the valve body 35 lightly in contact with the diaphragm.

Abstract: An engine charge forming device controls the fuel metering orifice area in proportion to the throttled air flow area of the induction passage and controls the pressure drop across the fuel metering orifice in proportion to a vacuum signal which is substantially independent of the compressibility effects of throttled air flow; fuel flow is thereby proportioned to air flow throughout the range of engine operating conditions. Adjustments are provided for varying the fuel metering orifice area to set minimum and maximum fuel flows, and controls are provided for modifying the vacuum signal to vary air-fuel ratio.

Abstract: An arrangement to eliminate the disadvantage of explosions caused by intake line backfiring resulting under cold engine starting conditions of internal combustion engines equipped with fuel injection systems of the type that inject, under cold starting conditions, additional fuel in finely divided form into the manifold intake pipe. In an improved fuel injection system, a fuel distribution arrangement comprising a fuel admitting portion communicating with an injection nozzle, and fuel feed components each of which extends from the admitting portion to a corresponding one of a plurality of intake lines to the engine is provided in the manifold intake pipe.

Abstract: A fuel injection device comprising an injection unit having a back pressure chamber and a fuel chamber which are separated by a diaphragm. The fuel chamber has on its lower end a fuel nozzle. A needle, cooperating with the fuel nozzle, is connected to the diaphragm. A flow control valve is arranged in the fuel feed passage connecting the fuel chamber to the fuel feed pump. The amount of the fuel injected from the fuel nozzle is controlled by the flow control valve so as to be proportional to the amount of the air sucked in. One end of the back pressure chamber is connected, to the pressure reducing chamber of the pressure reducing valve via a restricted opening and, the other end is connected to the fuel tank via the fuel return passage. An electromagnetic valve is arranged in the fuel return passage. An oxygen concentration detector is arranged in the exhaust passage of an engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection device comprising a fuel pump, a constant pressure valve and a fuel nozzle connected to the fuel pump via a fuel feed passage. The constant pressure chamber of the constant pressure valve is arranged in the fuel feed passage. A flow control valve is arranged in the fuel feed passage between the constant pressure chamber and the fuel nozzle. The amount of the fuel injected from the fuel nozzle is controlled by the flow control valve so as to be directly proportional to the amount of the air sucked in. The constant pressure chamber is connected to the fuel nozzle via a bypass passage. An electromagnetic valve is arranged in the bypass passage and opened when an engine is accelerated and before the completion of the warm-up of an engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which brings about an improvement in the acceleration behavior of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injection system includes an intake manifold having a measuring device arranged therein which is moved against a restoring force in accordance with the quantity of air flowing therethrough and thereby actuates the control slide of a distribution valve. The restoring force on the air flow measuring device is actuated by fuel, supplied by a fuel pump via a damping throttle, which operates within a pressure chamber into which the control slide protrudes by means of an end face. A check valve is arranged in a discharge line between the pressure chamber and the delivery side or the suction side of the pump, and opens above a predetermined pressure within the pressure chamber. This allows a rapid unloading of the pressure chamber and a rapid response of the fuel injection system in the case of an acceleration.

Abstract: A pressure control valve for a fuel injection system is proposed which serves to control the warm-up fuel quantity for a mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engine. The pressure control valve includes a movable valve part which is urged in the closing direction by a compression spring which is counteracted during the warm-up phase by a first temperature-dependent element, whose force on the compression spring below a predetermined temperature in the direction of an increase in the force of the first temperature-dependent element can be influenced by a second temperature-dependent element, so that the fuel-air mixture during the warm-up phase can be adapted to the requirements of every internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A fuel-air mixture arrangement with an air-compressing supercharger for a combustion engine with continuous fuel injection into the intake pipe which holds an air quantity meter, a pivotal ram flap and a throttle flap are arranged behind each other. The air quantity meter, depending on its deflection, actuates a fuel metering unit. The fuel metering proceeds at constant pressure drop in the fuel. This pressure drop can be varied depending on certain coefficients, and the pressure drop on a valve is varied by a control pressure valve to which controlling variables are applied. The set pressure drop at the metering cross sections of the fuel metering units is kept constant by the valve operated by the control pressure valve. The air quantity meter is located downstream of the air compressing supercharger and the control pressure valve receives the supercharger air pressure prevailing upstream of the throttle flap via a diaphragm unit.

Abstract: Problems associated with warm engine starting of spark-ignition internal combustion engines with continuous injection into the intake manifold and fuel injection systems of the type utilizing a measuring element and a deliberately operable power control element connected in series, the measuring element being moved as a function of the air volume through-put so as to displace a fuel valve disposed in a fuel supply line for metering a volume of fuel which is proportional to the air volume and which has a warmup control connected by a control pressure line with the fuel valve and a zero-pressure fuel return line with a fuel tank for enriching the fuel-air mixture during the warmup of the internal combustion engine are avoided according to the present invention by an improvement comprising a bypass line interconnecting the control pressure line of the fuel pressure line in bypassing relationship with respect to the warmup control.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the various functions of an internal combustion engine using a program-controlled microprocessor system having a memory preprogrammed with various control laws and associated control schedules receives information concerning one or more engine-operating parameters such as manifold pressure, throttle position, engine coolant temperature, air temperature, engine speed or period, and the like. These parameters are sensed and then supplied to input circuits for signal conditioning and conversion into digital words usable by the microprocessor system. The microprocessor system computes a digital command word indicative of a computer-commanded engine control operation and output circuitry responds to predetermined computer-generated commands and to the computed digital command word for converting them to corresponding pulse-width control signals for controlling such engine operations as fuel-injection, ignition timing, proportional and/or on-off EGR control, and the like.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus is proposed for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines which provides continuous injection into the intake manifold. An air flow rate member and an arbitrarily actuatable throttle valve are disposed in sequence within the intake manifold, the air flow rate member being moved against a return force in accordance with the quantity of air flowing therethrough and thereby adjusts the movable member of a metering and distribution valve assembly disposed within the fuel supply line for the purpose of apportioning a quantity of fuel which is proportional to the air quantity. The control slide of the metering valve is actuated by means of a spring which moves in a direction to open the metering valve when the engine is being turned off.