Regulating Means Adjusts Fuel Pressure Patents (Class 123/457)
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Patent number: 12134994Abstract: A pump unit may include a pump configured to increase a pressure of diesel fuel and discharge the diesel fuel to a fuel passage in which a filter is disposed, and a controller configured to control an operation of the pump. The controller may be configured to execute freeze avoidance control in which the operation of the pump is controlled using an index that indicates a degree of clogging of the filter caused by the diesel fuel freezing. In the freeze avoidance control, the controller may be configured to apply a higher load to the pump as the degree of clogging of the filter indicated by the index is higher.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2024Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukihiko Yato
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Patent number: 12005884Abstract: Disclosed is a method for optimizing the time gradient of the pressure increase in a fuel injection system of a hybrid motor vehicle. The method determines and uses the engine torque generated by the electric machine of the vehicle to reduce the engine torque generated by the internal combustion engine of the vehicle and allow the high-pressure pump of the internal combustion engine to generate, if applicable, a higher value of the time gradient of the pressure increase in the common supply chamber of its injection system.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Nicolas Girard, Fabien Constans
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Patent number: 11773801Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling an engine torque for a diesel engine, characterized in that the engine torque control is implemented in an injection system. The injection system in question includes a high-pressure pump controlled by an engine control unit, the high-pressure pump supplying a fuel supply rail, the pump being dimensioned to be capable of delivering a capacity volume of compressible fuel for each combustion cycle of the diesel engine. It also includes a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure of the fuel in the fuel rail.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Lionel Treton, Jérémie Memain, Thibaut Polidore
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Patent number: 11739686Abstract: In some embodiments, a fuel temperature sensor is located proximate to a vehicle component that is expected to experience fuel gelling, such as near or within a fuel filter, in order to obtain temperature information that accurately reflects the likelihood of fuel gelling occurring within the component. The proximate fuel temperature sensor can provide more accurate temperature information for components such as fuel filters that are installed at the periphery of the vehicle, compared to other temperature sensors that measure oil temperatures or other temperatures of centrally located vehicle components. In some embodiments, the vehicle is automatically started when the temperature indicated by the fuel temperature sensor falls below a startup temperature threshold value, and is automatically stopped after a predetermined time period or after the temperature reaches a shutdown temperature threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: PACCAR Inc.Inventors: David Bruce, Phu Vi Tran, Brendan A. Smith
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Patent number: 11703004Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device that is capable of accurately estimating a stable combustion state at low cost. An internal combustion engine control device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a rotational speed calculation unit 122a that calculates a time-series value of a crank rotational speed of an internal combustion engine; a rotational, speed phase calculation unit 122b that calculates a phase of the crank rotational speed from the time-series value of the crank rotational speed calculated by the rotational speed calculation unit; and a cycle variation calculation unit 122c that calculates the magnitude of variation between cycles of the phase of the crank rotational speed calculated by the rotational speed phase calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari, Shinya Sato
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Patent number: 11499515Abstract: A fuel pump includes a fuel pump housing with a pumping chamber and an inlet valve bore which extends along an inlet valve bore axis. The inlet valve bore is stepped such that the inlet valve bore includes a shoulder which is traverse to the inlet valve bore axis. A pumping plunger reciprocates within a plunger bore along a plunger bore axis such that an intake stroke of the pumping plunger increases volume of the pumping chamber and a compression stroke of the pumping plunger decreases volume of the pumping chamber. An inlet valve assembly includes a valve seat with a valve seat flow passage extending therethrough, the valve seat abuts the shoulder and is urged toward the shoulder by pressure within the pumping chamber during the compression stroke. The inlet valve assembly also includes a valve member which is moveable between an unseated position and a seated position.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventor: Robert B. Perry
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Patent number: 11476028Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a solenoid actuator. In one example, a method may include adjusting a switching frequency during an activation cycle of the solenoid actuator to a lower switching frequency relative to other phases of the activation cycle.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mike Garrard, Jonathan Thombs
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Patent number: 11459988Abstract: A high pressure fuel pump includes an inlet metering valve arranged to control a quantity of fuel delivered to the pumping chamber during retracting motion of the pumping plunger. The inlet metering valve includes a metering valve member movable between a closed position and an open position, movement of the metering valve member from the closed position to the open position defining a variable flow area that increases as the metering valve member moves from the closed position toward the open position. An actuator piston in an actuator bore is exposed to pressure in the common rail. The actuator piston is biased toward a first position corresponding to low pressure in the common rail and movable toward a second position corresponding to maximum pressure in the common rail. The actuator piston includes a valve stop that determines a metering position of the metering valve member.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Stanadyne LLCInventors: Richard P. Pellini, Kenneth R. Morel, David G. Palermo, Dominic M. Myren, Yevgeniy Norkin, Michael Wegrzyniak
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Patent number: 11242832Abstract: A structure for attaching a metal diaphragm damper, includes a housing, a housing cover that cooperates with the housing to define a space, and a pair of diaphragms each formed in a disk shape, the pair of diaphragms having weld portions on an outer periphery side thereof, the weld portions being welded to each other in an annular shape to form the metal diaphragm damper of which inside is filled with gas, the metal diaphragm damper being attached to the housing and the housing cover so as to be disposed in the space between the housing and the housing cover. The pair of diaphragms is provided with outer peripheral portions on the outer peripheral side of the welded portions, and the outer peripheral portions of the pair of diaphragms are held by the housing and the housing cover in a thickness direction of the pair of diaphragms.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Inventors: Toshiaki Iwa, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Yusuke Sato
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Patent number: 11199160Abstract: A fuel booster system having a fuel inlet port, a fuel outlet port, and a fuel accumulator fluidically coupled to both ports. The fuel inlet port allows fuel to be delivered to the fuel accumulator and the fuel outlet port is in fluid communication with a combustion engine to deliver fuel from the fuel booster system to the combustion engine. A source of pressurized gas is also fluidically coupled to the fuel accumulator to deliver pressurized gas through a gas port in one end of the fuel accumulator. A piston is located within the fuel accumulator and the source of pressurized gas can be discharged into the fuel accumulator to force accumulated fuel from the fuel accumulator and to the engine when the fuel booster system determines that the engine needs more fuel.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Pressure Drop Technology Integration, Inc.Inventor: William F. Klier
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Patent number: 11162466Abstract: A fuel supply valve for a slurry fuel injector valve comprises a fuel inlet in fluid communication with a slurry fuel reservoir. A fuel outlet is in fluid communication with a nozzle of the fuel injector valve. A pump chamber port is in fluid communication with a pump chamber of the fuel injector valve. A valve gate is moveable between a first position wherein the fuel inlet is in fluid communication along a first slurry fuel flow path with the pump chamber port and a second position wherein the fuel outlet is in fluid communication along a second slurry fuel flow path with the pump chamber port. Wherein the valve gate is arranged to not substantially exert a force opposing a flow on the slurry fuel into the valve chamber when the valve gate moves between the second position and the first position and/or between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: A.P. Møller—Mærsk A/SInventors: Matteo Imperato, Tim Reeve
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Patent number: 10982638Abstract: To reduce collision noise caused when an electromagnetic valve of a high-pressure fuel supply pump is opened. Therefore, in a control device for controlling a high-pressure fuel supply pump including: an anchor; a fixed core configured to attract the anchor with an electromagnetic force; a suction valve configured to be opened or closed when the anchor is sucked by the fixed core; and an electromagnetic force generation unit configured to generate the electromagnetic force when applied with a driving voltage, it can be achieved by providing a control unit configured to perform control to lower a driving current from a peak current before a timing at which the anchor is sucked by the fixed core and collides in an operation state where an engine is under no load and an engine rotation speed is equal to or less than a set rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Watanabe, Shunsuke Aritomi, Masayuki Suganami, Ryo Kusakabe
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Patent number: 10895213Abstract: A pressurized fuel injection system for an engine includes a pressure sensor in a low pressure rail, an electronic pressure regulator valve in flow communication with and downstream from the low pressure rail and in flow communication with and upstream from a fuel supply, and a controller configured to receive a pressure signal from the pressure sensor and to control the electronic pressure regulator valve in response to the pressure signal to maintain a target pressure in the low pressure rail.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Volvo Truck CorporationInventor: Dale Hoover
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Patent number: 10801451Abstract: A housing has an inner passage to communicate with both a fuel passage, which is to conduct fuel from a fuel pump, and a return passage, which is to return fuel a fuel tank. A valve body is movable in the housing to change a minimum flow passage cross-sectional area of the inner passage. A spring is connected to the valve body and changes its biasing load in correspondence with a fuel temperature to move the valve body. The spring moves the valve body such that the minimum flow passage cross-sectional area, when the fuel temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined vapor generation temperature, is larger than the minimum flow passage cross-sectional area when the fuel temperature is lower than the vapor generation temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takemasa Fujiseki, Tetsuro Okazono, Shinji Noda, Norihiro Hayashi, Hajime Danjo, Shinichi Morita
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Patent number: 10563601Abstract: A method for correcting a deviation of static flow rates of GDI injectors is provided. The method includes calculating a target pressure drop amount for each cylinder and a relative pressure drop amount for each cylinder from a detected pressure drop amount. An injection correction factor for each cylinder is primarily adjusted by comparing the relative pressure drop amount for each cylinder, with an average of relative pressure drop amounts of all cylinders. The injection correction factor is then secondarily adjusted by comparing an average of injection correction factors of all cylinders with 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyung-Ho Ahn
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Patent number: 10563610Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing port injection fuel errors by selectively reactivating a direct fuel injector. Responsive to an increase in driver demand received while delivering fuel to a cylinder via port injection only, wherein the increase in driver demand is received late in the port injection window, the port injection error is addressed by reactivating a direct injector on the same engine cycle and delivering at least a portion of the fuel mass corresponding to the error via the direct injector. Additionally, a portion of the fuel mass may be delivered by the port injector on the same engine cycle by extending the end of injection timing, if possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul Hollar, Mary Catherine Farmer, Ethan D. Sanborn, Daniel Dusa, Joseph Lyle Thomas
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Patent number: 10526994Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for health assessments of a fuel system. In one example, a fuel system includes a high-pressure fuel pump operable to increase fuel pressure from a first pressure to a second pressure, a common fuel rail fluidly coupling the high-pressure fuel pump to a plurality of fuel injectors each of which is operable to inject fuel to individual cylinders of an engine, a pressure sensor operable to detect a pressure of fuel at the common fuel rail, and a controller operable to diagnose a condition of the high-pressure fuel pump based on output from the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Morse N. Taxon, Pradheepram Ottikkutti
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Patent number: 10513998Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a fuel lift pump. While operating in a pulsed mode, a duty cycle of the pulse is ramped in. Based on the ramp rate of the applied voltage or current relative to a resulting rate of change of the fuel pressure, a calibration gain or transfer function value is estimated and applied during subsequent fuel pump operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Uhrich, Ross Pursifull
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Patent number: 10487769Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a low pressure fuel pump, a low pressure fuel passage, a high pressure fuel pump, a high pressure fuel passage, a fuel injection valve, a high pressure controller, and a low pressure controller. The low pressure controller calculates a feedforward correction amount that increases as a request injection amount of the fuel injection valve increases and an increase rate of the high pressure target value increases when a high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller calculates a feedback correction amount based on a low-side pressure deviation when the high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller controls driving of the low pressure fuel pump based on a sum of the feedforward correction amount and the feedback correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sohichi Imai, Motohiro Sugimoto, Masanao Idogawa
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Patent number: 10473065Abstract: A fuel return device includes a fuel collector and a return system. The fuel collector is located in a passage between a fuel tank and a vapor fuel processing device that processes vapor fuel discharged from the fuel tank. The fuel collector collects the fuel and stores the collected fuel as a storage fuel. The return system extends from the fuel collector, and is connected to a low-pressure generation part that generates a low pressure by a flow of fuel refueled through a filler pipe into the fuel tank, to return the storage fuel to the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10443552Abstract: A fuel supply device includes a pump unit that sucks stored fuel in a fuel tank from a suction port and discharges the fuel to an outside of the fuel tank. A pressure regulating valve performs pressure regulation of fuel discharged from the pump unit. The pressure regulating valve includes a return port having an opening facing in a separating direction away from the suction port, and returns surplus fuel generated by the pressure regulation from the return port into the fuel tank. A suction filter encloses an internal space where the suction port is open, and filters the stored fuel entering the internal space. The suction filter includes an expansion part to which the internal space is extended, and the expansion part is on a side of the return port that faces in the separating direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Fukuoka, Kiyoshi Nagata, Norihiro Hayashi, Katsuhisa Yamada
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Patent number: 10253741Abstract: An object is to suppress cavitation generated at a distal end portion of a seat face when a valve body and a seat portion collide with each other. In a relief valve of a fuel pump, an intersection between the seat face and a flow channel hole is formed at a position more distant than the seat portion formed of the valve body in a valve closing state and the seat face in order to suppress generation of cavitation bubbles when the valve body improves and releases high-pressure fuel.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, LtdInventors: Moritsugu Akiyama, Shigehiko Omata, Katsutoshi Kobayashi, Kenichiro Tokuo
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Patent number: 10233861Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the fuel quantity that is actually injected by a fuel injector in an internal combustion engine. A fuel injector is operated to perform a fuel injection. The first discharge stroke of the fuel pump is deactivated following a start of the fuel injection for preventing the discharge stroke from delivering fuel into the fuel rail. A value of a pressure drop caused into the fuel rail by the fuel injection is calculated. A value of a fuel quantity injected by the fuel injection is calculated on the basis of the calculated value of the pressure drop.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATONS LLCInventors: Stefano Nieddu, Andrea Mollar
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Patent number: 10202921Abstract: A method controls a system for supplying diesel fuel on a motor vehicle. The system includes a fuel tank, a first pump that is a low-pressure pump taking fuel from the tank and delivering the fuel to a second pump that is a high-pressure pump. The method includes controlling the first pump to regulate the quantity of fuel provided as a function of the needs of the second pump, and determining a geographical position of the vehicle. The first pump is controlled to a maximum pressure level when the vehicle is in one of several predefined probable stopping zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: RENAULT S.A.S.Inventor: Frederic Lavoisier
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Patent number: 10091901Abstract: To completely prevent air from leaking out from a conduit tube, which protects an electrical wire connecting an electrical equipment and a power source, and to easily and reliably electrically connect the electrical equipment and the power source in an air shelter. A pump and a motor are covered with a cover body, and an electrical wire that connects an explosion proof connector and a power source is not protected with a flexible conduit tube in the inside of the cover body, and protected with the flexible conduit tube only on the outer side of a conduit tube connector arranged on a side wall of a base.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SHOWA KIKI KOGYO. CO. LTD.Inventor: Shinsuke Maeshiba
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Patent number: 9995263Abstract: Fuel nozzle assemblies are flushed after ultrasonic cleaning. In one embodiment, a method includes: cleaning a fuel nozzle assembly by ultrasonic cleaning; and after the ultrasonic cleaning, flushing the fuel nozzle assembly using a solution, the fuel nozzle assembly comprising a valve located in an interior of the fuel nozzle assembly, the solution flowing through the interior of the fuel nozzle assembly, and the flowing of the solution controlled by the valve.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: STANDARD AERO (SAN ANTONIO) INC.Inventors: Daniel Rodriguez, Ulises Noguera
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Patent number: 9932949Abstract: A partitioning portion partitions a fuel chamber into a first space, which receives a pressurizing chamber forming portion and is communicated with an inflow pipe, and a second space, which is communicated with an outflow pipe. A flow passage forming portion extends from the partitioning portion toward the first space side and forms a communicating flow passage, which communicates between the first space and the second space. Thereby, vapor contained in the fuel, which is returned from a pressurizing chamber to the fuel chamber, is accumulated as bubbles in the first space, which receives the pressurizing chamber forming portion. The first space is communicated with the outside through the communicating flow passage and the second space. Therefore, outputting of air bubbles of the first space to the outside can be effectively limited in comparison to a case where the fuel chamber is directly communicated with the outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuharu Matsuo, Hiroatsu Yamada, Noriya Matsumoto, Seiji Tanizawa, Shinobu Oikawa
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Patent number: 9638348Abstract: System and methods for controlling a flow of fluid in a fuel system are disclosed. In an aspect, a gas admission system includes a gas admission valve assembly having an inlet, an outlet, and a valve configured to control a flow of fluid between the inlet and the outlet and a flow limiter assembly in fluid communication with the inlet of the gas admission valve assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Sunil Bean, Andrew Neaville, Joshua Steffen
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Patent number: 9611796Abstract: A cylinder-injection-engine control apparatus includes a fuel injection controller that executes air purge control for performing fuel injection in an intake stroke if fuel pressure is below a predetermined pressure when an engine starts. When executing the air purge control, the fuel injection controller makes a fuel injection time of an injector longer than when the fuel pressure is higher than or equal to the predetermined pressure. When executing the air purge control, if the amount of fuel in a fuel tank is larger than or equal to a predetermined amount and an integrated value of a fuel injection amount (integrated injection amount) since start of the fuel injection is larger than or equal to a predetermined value, the fuel injection controller stops the air purge control.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshitaka Namekawa
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Patent number: 9453475Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a fuel system configured to deliver a gaseous fuel to an engine. Following tank refilling, the fuel composition is selectively updated based on fuel tank pressure, temperature, and air content data. When the engine is subsequently restarted, the fuel rail is primed for a duration based on the updated composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam Nolan, Jamie Terence Slaymaker, Andrew Paul Chee Aun Wong, Phuoc Buiquang
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Patent number: 9291117Abstract: A method of controlling a low pressure fuel pump of a gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine includes receiving failure related information of a high pressure fuel pump, boosting, if the high pressure fuel pump is failed based on the failure related information of the high pressure fuel pump, a fuel pressure of the low pressure fuel pump to a setting pressure and controlling, if the high pressure fuel pump is not failed, the fuel pressure of the low pressure fuel pump based on a measured fuel pressure with respect to a target fuel pressure of the high pressure fuel pump or a change of a control value of the GDI engine. A corresponding control system includes a fuel supply pressure controller, among other components, which is operated by a predetermined program for executing the method of controlling the low pressure fuel pump of the GDI engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Bumky Lee, Heesup Kim
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Patent number: 9261036Abstract: A method to minimize common rail pressure irregularities due to aliasing effect on battery voltage monitoring in a digital electronic control unit that is capable of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) regulations of a metering valve unit in a diesel common-rail power-train system. At least an engine rotary speed signal is detected and at least a battery voltage signal is monitored, the method includes, but is not limited to calculating the aliasing frequency on said battery voltage signal as a function of said engine rotary speed signal, filtering the battery voltage signal before it is input to said controller module with at least one digital non-linear notch filter, the at least one digital non-linear notch filter centered about the first harmonic of the aliasing frequency, and input the filtered battery voltage signal, at least with the engine rotary speed signal, to the controller module for PWM regulating the metering valve unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Stefano Nieddu, Maura Dintino
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Patent number: 9188077Abstract: A fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine in which a driving signal for a high pressure fuel pump is calculated by using proportional plus integral control based on a difference between a delivery pressure of the high pressure fuel pump and a target pressure thereof. A delivery pressure of a low pressure fuel pump is caused to decrease when an amount of change per unit time of an integral term shows a decreasing tendency or zero, whereas the delivery pressure of the low pressure fuel pump is caused to increase when the amount of change per unit time of the integral term shows an increasing tendency. In cases where an increase in the integral term resulting from a change in the target delivery pressure of the high pressure fuel pump has occurred, the increase in the delivery pressure of the low pressure fuel pump is prohibited.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 9074550Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a technology that enables to make the feed pressure as low as possible without inviting a misfire or a deviation of the air-fuel ratio, in a fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine equipped with a low pressure fuel pump and a high pressure fuel pump. According to the invention, to achieve the object, in a fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine in which fuel discharged from a low pressure fuel pump is supplied to a fuel injection valve with its pressure boosted by a high pressure fuel pump, while a lowering process of lowering feed pressure or the discharge pressure of a the low pressure fuel pump, the lowering process is suspended and restarted with reference to the tendency of change in an integral term used in a proportional-integral control of the duty cycle of the high pressure fuel pump.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 9074565Abstract: A fuel delivery system including a fuel line and a damper. The fuel line extends to a fuel injector and defines a fuel path. The damper is along the fuel path and includes a flexible member and a stop. A first side of the flexible member faces the fuel path and a second side of the flexible member faces the stop.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Dhyana Ramamurthy, Steve Roseborsky, Tetsuo Ogato
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Patent number: 9027534Abstract: A compression ignition dual fuel engine supplies natural gas fuel and liquid diesel fuel to each engine cylinder from a common fuel injector. Each fuel injector is fluidly connected to both a liquid fuel common rail and a gaseous fuel common rail. The engine includes a surplus gas system for capturing surplus gas, such as evaporated gas from the gaseous fuel supply and pressure control system, or left over pressurized natural gas produced by engine shut down. Rather than being vented to atmosphere, the surplus gas can be burned in the engine when operating conditions present burn opportunities.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Alan Stockner, Mark F. Sommars
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Publication number: 20150114351Abstract: An improved multi-fuel supply and co-injection system and method for powering internal combustion and turbine engines, whereby various combinations of fuels, both liquid and gaseous, may be mixed together and fed into the system, under the real-time control of a microprocessor responding to a variety of sensors and acting on a variety of control devices, all working together in a manner designed to enhance the utilization of the thermal content of the various fuels, and in particular to enhance the combustion efficiency and increase the power output while decreasing the consumption of fuel, calculated both by quantity and by cost and whereby the liquid fuel lubricates the moving parts of the injection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: Morten A. Lund
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Patent number: 9016261Abstract: For a pressure relief device of an injection system of an internal combustion engine, for an injection system of an internal combustion engine having a pressure relief device and in a pressure relief method of an injection system of an internal combustion engine, a defined fuel pressure of the injection system is reduced to a defined fuel residual pressure upon exceeding a pressure limit above a defined fuel pressure, permitting emergency operation of the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Daniel Anetsberger, Reinhard Barth
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Publication number: 20150096536Abstract: Disclosed is a pulse damper using a composite spring device for eliminating pulse waves in a plunger pump for supplying fuel, which includes a spring body, and a body for receiving an O-ring spacer supported by an internal O-ring cap, wherein a low pressure coil spring and a high pressure disc spring are arranged in a line inside the spring body so that the low pressure oil spring primarily works and then stops by making a low pressure spring cover and a low pressure spring pad contact a low pressure spring stopper, and secondarily the high pressure disc spring works and then stops by making a high pressure spring pad mounted on one end of a spring guide shaft connected to a piston contact a high pressure spring stopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventor: Byoung-Chan Hwang
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Patent number: 8954258Abstract: A pressure-reducing regulator for CNG fuel includes a high pressure sensor that detects fuel pressure at an inlet, a filter element that filters fuel, an orifice that provides access to a pressure reduction chamber, and a movable pintle located within the orifice, such that a flow rate of fuel through the orifice varies according to a position of the pintle within the orifice. The pressure-reducing regulator further includes a motor that moves the pintle, a low pressure sensor that detects fuel pressure at an outlet and a control unit comprising a processor. The process is configured for reading data from the high pressure sensor, data from the low pressure sensor and vehicle data from an engine, calculating a desired position of the pintle based on the sensor data and the vehicle data, and transmitting a signal to the motor for moving the pintle to the desired position.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Inventors: Roger Mark Toale, George Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 8950381Abstract: A fuel supply unit (1) is provided e.g. a carburetor or a low pressure injection system of an internal combustion engine. The fuel supply unit (1) includes a main air passage (3), which has a throttle valve (8, 9) mounted therein and the throttle valve (8, 9) includes a throttle shaft (8) extending between two to one another opposite located shaft sides (6, 7). A control module (2) for the fuel supply (2) is mounted to one (7) of the shaft sides (6, 7), which control module (2) includes throttle position detecting means (30; 300) for monitoring the position of the throttle valve (8, 9), and fuel valve means (60) for controlling the fuel supply to the main air passage (3). Also, an ignition system is provided which is able to control the ignition timing with respect to status of the at least one of the means (30; 300, 40, 60, 100) in the control module (2) in order to at least control the idle speed of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Husqvarna ABInventors: Mikael Larsson, Bo Carlsson, Björn Landén, Mats Lavenius
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Patent number: 8950379Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a pump control module, an adjustment determination module, and an adjusting module. The pump control module selectively disables pumping of a fuel pump that is driven by a spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engine. A predetermined period after the pumping of the fuel pump is disabled, the adjustment determination module determines a pressure adjustment for a first fuel rail pressure measured using a fuel rail pressure sensor. The adjusting module generates a second fuel rail pressure based on the pressure adjustment and the first fuel rail pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Inventors: Rafat F. Hattar, Jeffrey M. Hutmacher, Paul D. Donar, Alexander Michel, Daniel Weinand, Dieter Wiedenhöft
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Patent number: 8944030Abstract: The fuel supply apparatus optimizes the timing of performing the fuel pressure change indication and the fuel injection timing to suppress the real fuel injection amount from being differentiated from the target fuel injection amount even at the time of the fuel pressure being changed, thereby improving fuel consumption. The ECU judges that the fuel pressure change request is generated (“YES” in Step S11), and calculates the change retarding time t1 (Step S12) when the fuel pressure is at the low pressure side, and the ECU determines that the vehicle is in the warming-up state, or that the fuel is at the high temperature. The ECU sets the change timing to avoid the timing of injecting the fuel from overlapping the changing timing of the fuel pressure with reference to the injection timing of the fuel injection control (Step S13).Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Suda, Koji Yoshida, Katsunori Kamiya
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Publication number: 20150027412Abstract: An engine fuel control system includes a fuel metering valve operable to control the flow of fuel between a supply line and a delivery line. The delivery line is configured to receive fuel from one or more fuel pumps. The engine fuel control system further includes a pressure raising arrangement which receives the fuel flow from the delivery line and raises the fuel pressure therein. The engine fuel control system further includes a pressure sensor arranged to sense the pressure of the fuel in the supply line between the one or more fuel pumps and the fuel metering valve, or to sense the pressure of the fuel in the delivery line between the fuel metering valve and the pressure raising arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventor: Nigel HENSON
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Patent number: 8931261Abstract: A pump component is removed from a port of a suction-side fluid cavity of a high-pressure fluid pump. The pump component performs a pump function for the high-pressure fluid pump. A primary coupler connects to the port. The pump component connects to the primary coupler. A diverter fluid passage diverts a low-pressure fluid from the primary coupler to an auxiliary fluid delivery system. The primary coupler communicates the low-pressure fluid through the pump component and primary coupler to the port.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: John T. Carroll, III, Laszlo D. Tikk
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Patent number: 8935078Abstract: A bi-fuel and dual-fuel engine variable pressure fuel system is presented facilitating individual or simultaneous use of liquid and gaseous fuels including natural gas and gasoline, through employment of a variable output pressure gaseous fuel regulator incorporating an attached hydraulic amplifying structure communicating with a relatively low pressure hydraulic servo circuit that may in turn communicate with a variable pressure automotive liquid fuel system to facilitate relatively high pressure gaseous fuel injection.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Inventor: Anthony Richard Lorts
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Publication number: 20140366845Abstract: A method, comprising: during engine cylinder operation with fuel from a first injector and not a second injector: increasing a rail pressure of a fuel rail coupled to the second injector in response to a temperature increase of a tip of the second injector. In this way, by raising the rail pressure of a fuel rail coupled to the second injector in response to a temperature increase of a tip of the second injector, the method may be utilized to prevent a vapor space from forming within the tip of the second injector which is exposed to the heat of combustion within the engine cylinder. By preventing a vapor space from forming, the method may be used to prevent fuel distillation in the tip of the second injector during periods where the engine cylinder is operating with fuel from a first injector and not the second injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Ulrich Kramer, Michael Damian Czekala, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
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Publication number: 20140360471Abstract: In a control system that includes a pressure accumulating portion that supplies CNG to a fuel injection valve and a regulator that adjusts a pressure in the pressure accumulating portion to a set pressure and of which a valve element opens when CNG is supplied to the pressure accumulating portion and closes when supply of CNG to the pressure accumulating portion is shut off, a control parameter relating to a combustion state in an internal combustion engine is controlled on the basis of a length of a period during which an opening degree of the valve element reduces from a first predetermined opening degree to a second predetermined opening degree when the pressure in the pressure accumulating portion is adjusted to the set pressure by the regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicants: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouseki Sugiyama, Satoshi Taniguchi, Masahiko Masubuchi, Hiroshi Eto
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Patent number: 8905001Abstract: A fuel-pumping system for a fuel includes at least one reservoir providing a first volume for the fuel and a second volume for a compression fluid, a separator membrane between the first volume and the second volume, an inlet port of the at least one reservoir for feeding the fuel to the first volume, an outlet port of the at least one reservoir for discharging the fuel at a high pressure from the first volume, a fluid port of the at least one reservoir for supplying or removing the compression fluid to or from the second volume. An operating method and a fuel-injection system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Volvo Technology CorporationInventor: Staffan Lundgren
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Patent number: 8899202Abstract: A fuel injection device comprising electricity-generating means generating electricity by rotation of an engine and outputting a predetermined signal, and a solenoid valve injecting fuel; the valve being opened as a result of a drive current applied to a coil, and the fuel being injected into an intake passage of the engine at a predetermined timing during the rotation of the engine; to ensure that the flow rate required during high-speed operation can be adequately provided in a fuel injection device for injecting/supplying fuel to an engine. The electricity-generating means is an alternating current generation means attached to the engine in a crank angle position at which an output is generated in synchronization with the intake timing of the engine; the signal is an injection command signal applied to the solenoid valve as an alternating-current drive current; and the applied voltage increases with increased engine speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Zama Japan Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi Nonaka, Hideki Watanabe