Controlling Fuel Quantity Patents (Class 701/104)
  • Publication number: 20120271532
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder, to which are connected an intake manifold having an air mass sensor, an exhaust pipe having a ?-sensor and an exhaust gas recirculation line having an exhaust gas recirculation valve. The air mass sensor generates an air mass sensor signal. The ?-sensor generates a ?-sensor signal. The exhaust gas recirculation valve is adjusted by a control signal. A setpoint injection quantity is formed and the control signal of the exhaust gas recirculation valve is formed as a function of the air mass sensor signal. An air mass replacement signal for the air mass sensor signal is formed as a function of the ?-sensor signal and the setpoint injection quantity. In the case of a faulty air mass sensor signal, the control signal is formed as a function of the air mass replacement signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Michalske, Thomas Kirstaetter
  • Patent number: 8296040
    Abstract: In a method for controlling an internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, an injection parameter is determined in dependence on a temperature of the internal combustion engine. The method is characterized in that a first value of the internal combustion engine temperature is determined which, in the event of changes in the operating point of the internal combustion engine, changes comparatively quickly to a value which is characteristic of the new operating point. A second value of the internal combustion engine temperature is formed which, in the event of changes in the operating point, changes comparatively slowly, and in that the injection parameter is defined in dependence on the first value and the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Achim Bauer
  • Patent number: 8296039
    Abstract: In a method for estimating at least one control parameter of an injection system in an internal combustion engine for a target injection quantity, the estimation of the control parameter is based on linear regression, which is determined between predefined grid points and calculated test points in an operating range of the injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnig, Michael Hardt
  • Publication number: 20120265423
    Abstract: A fuel injection control system is provided. The fuel injection control system comprises a first injector and a second injector positioned upstream of the first injector; a memory section which contains a map for defining a correspondence between a running state of an engine and first and second fuel injection ratios; a fuel injection ratio setting section for setting the first fuel injection ratio as a first set value and the second fuel injection ratio as a second set value; and a fuel injection ratio compensation section for making compensation such that the first set value is greater than a value of the first fuel injection ratio derived from the map, when a condition in which the second fuel injection ratio read out from the map is greater in magnitude than a predetermined determination criterion is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichi Kai, Osamu Tani, Masakazu Noro, Tetsuya Masuda
  • Publication number: 20120265424
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the open-loop control and the closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine (1), the rail pressure (pCR) being controlled in the normal operating state in a closed loop control mode via an intake throttle (4) on the lower pressure side as the first pressure control member in a rail pressure control loop and at the same time a rail pressure disturbance variable being applied to the rail pressure (pCR) via a pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side as the second pressure control member. For this purpose, a pressure control valve volume flow (VDRV) is redirected from the rail (6) to a fuel tank (2) via the pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side, and an emergency operation mode is activated once a defective rail pressure sensor (9) is detected, in which emergency operation the pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side and the intake throttle (4) on the low pressure side are actuated depending on the same set point value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20120265425
    Abstract: Setting values of a fuel injection quantity for an engine having an exhaust gas recirculator (EGR) and variable nozzle turbo (VNT), and an engine speed, and measurement values of a manifold air pressure (MAP) and a mass air flow (MAF) are obtained. According to a combination of the reference values of an EGR valve opening degree and a VNT nozzle opening degree, which correspond to the setting values, or a combination of a control value of the EGR valve opening degree by a MAF controller and a control value of the VNT nozzle opening degree by a MAP controller, which correspond to the measurement values, a mode that the MAF and MAP controllers, a first interference compensator from the MAF controller to the MAP controller and a second interference compensator for the reverse direction are enabled and a mode that the MAF or MAP controller is enable are dynamically switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsugito Maruyama, Arata Ejiri
  • Patent number: 8290645
    Abstract: A method for determining a mission plan for a powered system having at least one primary power generating unit when a desired parameter of the mission plan unobtainable and/or exceeds a predefined limit, the method includes identifying a desired parameter prior to creating a mission plan which may be unobtainable and/or in violation of a predefined limit, and notifying an operator of the powered system and/or a remote monitoring facility of the desired parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ramu Sharat Chandra, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Saravanan Thiyagarajan
  • Patent number: 8290687
    Abstract: A method for determining a fuel mass of a single injection that has been injected into at least one combustion chamber of a combustion engine with at least one injection under high pressure. The method includes determining a correction variable for the single injection with the aid of a comparison of a measure for the actual amount of the injected fuel of at least one test injection, which takes place due to a measure for a default nominal amount of a desired single injection, and a measure for the nominal amount of the test injection. The method additionally includes executing a plurality of timely directly successive test injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Olbrich, Wolfgang Beuer, Andreas Sommerer, Steffen Meyer-Salfeld
  • Patent number: 8290686
    Abstract: Transitioning between combustion modes includes an intermediate combustion mode. Transitions are controlled in accordance with a preferred fuel mass and permissible fuel mass ranges corresponding to changing intake airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jun-Mo Kang, Hanho Yun, Allen B. Rayl, Vijay Ramappan, Matthew A. Wiles
  • Publication number: 20120259532
    Abstract: An object of this invention is, even when executing WGV control, to stably control an air-fuel ratio in parallel therewith. An engine includes a supercharger, a waste gate valve (WGV) and the like. An ECU calculates a wall-surface fuel adherence amount that is an amount of fuel adhering to a wall surface of an intake port based on a plurality of parameters including a degree of opening of the WGV or an indicator corresponding to the degree of opening. The calculated wall-surface fuel adherence amount is reflected in a fuel injection amount. Thus, even when executing WGV control, a state of a blowback amount of exhaust gas that varies with the degree of opening of the WGV can be reflected in the wall-surface fuel adherence amount, in other words, the fuel injection amount, and thus a disturbance of the air-fuel ratio or the like caused by changes in the blowback amount can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20120259533
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing the performance of a vehicle under normal operating conditions. A vehicle system adjusts one or more vehicle operating parameters in a closed-loop in response to data received from sensors. A portable vehicle communication interface module is selectively attached to the vehicle without inhibiting normal operation of the vehicle. When connected to the vehicle, the vehicle communication interface module records the adjustments made by the vehicle system in closed-loop operation. These recorded values are then used to update calibration information that the vehicle system uses as default values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR COMPANY GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Nicosia, Edward A. Ramberger, David Klosterman, Charles Zellner, Andrew Stampor, Michael Simpson, John Chapin, Karl Lingerfelt
  • Patent number: 8282531
    Abstract: An engine rotational speed control apparatus is provide to prevent a degradation of fuel efficiency caused by an unnecessary increase of the rotational speed of an engine when a depression amount of an accelerator pedal is briefly increased and then immediately decreased. In particular, when the vehicle is accelerated, an optimum fuel efficiency operating point along an optimum fuel efficiency curve is not moved immediately to another optimum fuel efficiency operating point corresponding to a new target drive force. Instead, the target drive force is reached by increasing the engine load while increasing the engine rotational speed as little as possible, and thus using an operating point that does not lie on the optimum fuel efficiency curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ishido, Atsufumi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120253641
    Abstract: A method for controlling an engine in either a first mode in which the engine is fuelled by a first fuel, or in a second mode in which the engine is fuelled by a mixture of the first fuel and a second fuel, the method comprising the steps of programming the engine to operate initially in the first mode, repeatedly sensing a plurality of first variables and obtaining a measured value for each sensed first variable, and emitting a first input signal dependent on the measured value of each sensed first variable, causing a first output signal, comprising a plurality of injector control signals, to be emitted in dependence on the first input signals for controlling the amount of the first fuel supplied to the engine, switching the mode of operation to the second mode, selecting one or more of the injector control signals to produce a first modified signal, which determines the amount of first fuel supplied to the engine and generating a second calculated signal, which determines the amount of second fuel supplied
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: T BADEN HARDSTAFF LTD
    Inventors: Nick Warner, Trevor Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20120253643
    Abstract: An air feed ratio controlling apparatus can include a predictor for predicting an air fuel ratio on the downstream side of a catalyst calculates a predicted air fuel ratio at least based on an actual air fuel ratio from an oxygen sensor and a history of a first correction coefficient. The air fuel ratio controlling apparatus can also include an adaptive model corrector which determines the deviation between the actual air fuel ratio and the predicted air fuel ratio as a prediction error ERPRE, and superposes a second correction coefficient on the first correction coefficient so that the prediction error may be reduced to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori NAKAMURA, Yukihiro ASADA, Shiro KOKUBU, Emi SHIDA
  • Publication number: 20120253642
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting imbalance abnormality in an air-fuel ratio between cylinders in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine according to the present invention increases a fuel injection quantity to a predetermined target cylinder to detect imbalance abnormality in an air-fuel ratio between cylinders at least based upon a rotation variation of the target cylinder after increasing the fuel injection quantity. The increase in the fuel injection quantity is carried out in the middle of performing the post-fuel-cut rich control. Since timing of the post-fuel cut rich control is used to increase the fuel injection quantity, the exhaust emission deterioration due to abnormality detection execution can be prevented as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shota Kitano, Hitoshi Tanaka, Isao Nakajima, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Kiyotaka Kushihama, Kazuyuki Noda, Akihiro Katayama, Yuichi Kohara, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 8280613
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine which can inject a fuel injection quantity to a fuel injector with accuracy even when the fuel injection quantity is reduced than before is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyohara, Takashi Okamoto, Tomohiro Ohisa, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120245821
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder-to-cylinder imbalances in the incidence of pre-ignition and/or knock. Engine cylinders are fueled based on each cylinder's pre-ignition count to balance the incidence of pre-ignition in each cylinder. The fueling is adjusted to maintain engine exhaust at stoichiometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, Robert Sarow Baskins
  • Publication number: 20120245822
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including operations to interpret an engine load level for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine. In response to determining the engine load level is less than 40% of a maximum engine load level, the method further includes operations to performing a first fuel injection event including less than 25% of a combustion fuel amount, the first fuel injection event occurring before 10 degrees after top dead center (TDC), to perform a second fuel injection event including between 15% and 65% of the combustion fuel amount, the second fuel injection event occurring after 10 degrees after TDC, and to perform third fuel injection event comprising between 10% and 85% of the combustion fuel amount, the third fuel injection event occurring before 63 degrees after TDC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: CUMMINS INC.
    Inventors: Linsong Guo, Tim R. Frazier
  • Publication number: 20120245824
    Abstract: An anomaly in a high-pressure fuel system of an internal combustion engine is diagnosed early on and with high precision, and, further, the anomaly site is identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusei Miura, Yoichi Iihoshi, Akihito Numata, Eisaku Fukuchi, Yoshikuni Kurashima
  • Publication number: 20120245825
    Abstract: A control device is applied to an internal combustion engine capable of using CNG and gasoline by switching therebetween, and the CNG and the gasoline are associated, as fuel for use, with one and the other of two driving areas respectively, the driving areas being different from each other. The control device exceptionally switches the fuel for use from gasoline to CNG and implements an air-fuel ratio imbalance inspection (S6, S7), when the air-fuel ratio imbalance inspection is required for a CNG mode using CNG (S1), the engine is driving in a driving area (AR2) correlated to gasoline as fuel for use (S2), and gasoline mode using gasoline as fuel for use is ongoing (S3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakayama, Yoshihisa Shinoda, Keisuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20120245823
    Abstract: After rich control for controlling the air/fuel ratio of a mixture to be an air/fuel ratio richer than stoichiometric air/fuel ratio, lean control is carried out so that air/fuel ratio of the mixture formed in the combustion chamber is controlled to be an air/fuel ratio leaner by a predetermined degree than the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio, or the air/fuel ratio of the mixture is controlled to temporarily be the air/fuel ratio leaner by the predetermined degree than the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio. If lean control is carried out after rich control is finished, temporary lean control provides that a degree of how much the air/fuel ratio of the mixture is leaner than the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio when the air/fuel ratio of the mixture is controlled to be the air/fuel ratio leaner than the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio in lean control is lower than the predetermined degree according to the temperature of a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mamoru Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8275536
    Abstract: A method for the determination of a fuel mass of a pre-injection injected into at least one combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine by means of at least one injection under high pressure is characterized in that a corrective variable is determined for the pre-injection by means of a comparison between a measure for the actual amount of injected fuel of at least one test post-injection carried out for a predetermined target amount of a desired pre-injection due to a measure, and the measure for the target amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Breitbach, Rainer Peck
  • Patent number: 8275538
    Abstract: Various example approaches are described, one of which includes a method for controlling injection of gaseous and liquid fuel to a cylinder during engine starting. Specifically, gaseous fuel is injected during or before an intake stroke of the cycle to form a well-mixed overall lean air-fuel mixture, and then liquid fuel is directly injected to the cylinder at least during one of a compression and expansion stroke of the engine cycle to form a rich air-fuel cloud near the spark plug, where a spark initiates combustion of the injected fuels. In one example, the rich cloud enables additional spark retard, and thus faster catalyst light-off, while maintain acceptable combustion stability of the gaseous fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Publication number: 20120226430
    Abstract: A control device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine executes feedback control such that an air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio detecting unit becomes a target air-fuel ratio, carries out external EGR, and, when an abnormal deviation that an air-fuel ratio of at least any one of cylinders deviates from the target air-fuel ratio has occurred during the feedback control, detects the abnormal deviation and an abnormal cylinder. When the abnormal deviation has been detected during feedback control and external EGR, the control device corrects the target air-fuel ratio to compensate for a detection error of the air-fuel ratio detecting unit due to the influence of specific components of exhaust gas. The control device changes the correction mode on the basis of whether the abnormal cylinder causes more intensive gas flow or equal or less intensive gas flow against the air-fuel ratio detecting unit than the other cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinagawa, Yuuichi Katou
  • Publication number: 20120226429
    Abstract: A method for controlling a diesel engine is disclosed in which the diesel engine is controlled to produce less soot when the operating state of an associated emission control device such as a diesel particulate filter or the amount of a contaminant such as fuel or soot in the oil used to lubricate the diesel engine exceed predetermined respective thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Romain Demory
  • Patent number: 8260526
    Abstract: A method and a device, a computer program and a computer program product for implementing a method for calibrating a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, including the following: a) Specifying a first relationship between an injection quantity and an actuating variable of the fuel injector for implementing the injection quantity, b) Specifying a setpoint injection quantity, c) Specifying at least one setpoint value for the actuating variable of the fuel injector according to the first relationship, or implementing the setpoint injection quantity, d) Determining an indicated work resulting from the implementation of the at least one setpoint value for the actuating variable, e) Comparing a variable as a function of the determined resulting indicated work to an expected value, f) Correcting the at least one setpoint value for the actuating variable of the fuel injector as a function of the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Loeffler, Wolfgang Fischer, Roland Karrelmeyer, Gerald Graf
  • Patent number: 8260528
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes a CPU, a throttle sensor, a brake sensor, and fuel injectors. When the CPU detects a control failure of the throttle valve with a value detected by the throttle sensor, the CPU adjusts the output of the engine by controlling the fuel injectors such that the motorcycle runs with a previously set negative target acceleration. Also, when the CPU detects a brake operation by the driver with the brake sensor after the occurrence of the control failure, the CPU corrects the target acceleration such that the deceleration of the motorcycle becomes larger. Then, the CPU adjusts the output of the engine such that the motorcycle runs with the corrected target acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Arai
  • Patent number: 8260525
    Abstract: A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine and an internal combustion engine are described, the fuel being injectable directly into a combustion chamber in particular via at least one first injector and also being injectable into an intake manifold in particular via at least one second injector. For injection of fuel in a full-load operating state of the internal combustion engine, a first selection is made from the at least one first injector and the at least one second injector having a first metering range, including a full-load injection quantity required for the full-load operating state. For injection of fuel in a partial-load operating state of the internal combustion engine, a second selection is made from the at least one first injector and the at least one second injector having a second metering range, including the adjustment of a minimum fuel injection quantity required for operating the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Mallebrein, Michael Frank, Alexander Schenck Zu Schweinsberg, Helerson Kemmer, Wolfgang Samenfink
  • Patent number: 8260527
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes a CPU, a throttle sensor, a shift actuator, and fuel injectors. When the CPU detects a control failure of the throttle valve with a value detected by the throttle sensor, the CPU adjusts the output of the engine by controlling the fuel injectors such that the motorcycle runs with a previously set negative target acceleration. Also, the CPU controls the shift actuator such that the transmission is shifted down in steps as the speed of the motorcycle decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20120221227
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine includes, but is not limited to acquiring a value of at least one engine operating parameter, using the set of values for determining a predicted value of a combustion parameter indicative of fuel combustion performance within an cylinder, using the values as input of a data-set returning as output a correlated correction value of the combustion parameter, using the correction value and the predicted value for determining an expected value of the combustion parameter, feed-forward controlling an injection of fuel into the engine cylinder targeting the expected value of the combustion parameter, measuring a value of the combustion parameter within the cylinder due to that injection of fuel, using a difference between the expected value and the measured value of the combustion parameter for correcting the correction value of the data-set that is correlated to the set of engine operating parameter values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vincenzo ALFIERI, Alessandro CATANESE, Raffaele SAGGESE
  • Patent number: 8255141
    Abstract: A method for reducing energy consumption of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a vehicle electric system, to which at least a first electric consumer is connected. To achieve an efficient vehicle electric system with a reduced energy consumption, the internal combustion engine is operated in a first operating mode with a first injection quantity and a first ignition timing. In a second operating mode, the internal combustion engine is operated with a second injection quantity that is higher than the first injection quantity and with a second ignition timing. A driving situation detection device recognizes an imminent specific driving situation on the basis of the previous behavior of the driver in controlling the vehicle and/or the behavior of the vehicle in advance and initiates a switch in the operating modes of the internal combustion engine from the first operating mode to the second operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olaf Lemke, Martin Hauschild
  • Publication number: 20120215424
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the control and regulation of an internal combustion engine (1), comprising an independent common rail system on the A-side and an independent common rail system on the B-side. During normal operation, the rail pressure (pCR(A), pCR(B)) is controlled in each common rail system via a low pressure-side suction throttle (4A, 4B) as the first pressure-adjusting element in a rail pressure control loop and, at the same time, the rail pressure (pCR(A), pCR(B)) is subjected to a rail pressure disturbance variable via a high pressure-side pressure control valve (11A, 11B) as a second pressure-adjusting element, by means of which a pressure control valve volume flow is redirected via the high pressure-side pressure control valve (11A, 11B) from the rail (6A, 6B) into a fuel tank (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20120215422
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is provided which calculates the quantity of fuel required to bring the pressure in a fuel accumulator into agreement with a target pressure and then control an operation of a high-pressure pump based on the required quantity. Even in the absence of a change in pressure in the accumulator, the system controls the high-pressure pump based on the required quantity. Specifically, the system calculates a feedback fuel quantity required to compensate for a difference between the required quantity and a quantity of the fuel actually supplied to the accumulator, in other words, leans such a quantity difference to correct the required quantity, thus resulting in an enhanced response of the system to control the high-pressure pump to a change in pressure in the accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi SUGIYAMA, Koji Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20120215421
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is provided which works to correct the pressure of fuel, as measured by a pressure sensor, using a pressure change corresponding to a change in quantity of the fuel in a common rail within a pressure change compensating time Tp to determine a pump discharge pressure Ptop. This compensates for an error in determining the pump discharge pressure Ptop which arises from propagation of the pressure of fuel from a pump to the pressure sensor. The pressure change compensating time Tp is the sum of a time T1 elapsed between sampling the output of the pressure sensor before a calculation start time when the pump discharge pressure is to start to be calculated and the calculation start time and a time T2 required for the pressure to transmit from the outlet of the pump to the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120215423
    Abstract: A control device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine that is equipped with a variable compression ratio mechanism includes an air-fuel ratio sensor, and a controller that determines whether or not actual mechanical compression ratios in cylinders of the internal combustion engine are uniform. The controller controls the variable compression ratio mechanism by decreasing a target mechanical compression ratio from a current first target mechanical compression ratio to a second target mechanical compression ratio without changing the amount of intake air and a fuel injection amount, and determines that the actual mechanical compression ratios in the cylinders are not uniform when the target mechanical compression ratio is set at the first target mechanical compression ratio if the differences in the output air-fuel ratios from the air-fuel ratio sensor for exhaust gases from the cylinders before and after the control of the variable compression ratio mechanism are not uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Satoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120209499
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for operating an engine in a vehicle in response to a driver performance/economy mode. One example method comprises delivering a first fuel to a cylinder of the engine from a first injector, delivering a second, different, fuel to the cylinder of the engine from a second injector, varying a relative amount of said first and second fuel as an operating condition varies; and adjusting delivery of at least said second fuel based on a driver-selected performance mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: John D. Russell
  • Patent number: 8240289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine. It is an object of the present invention to prevent an excessive reaction of a throttle valve when the throttle valve is driven on the basis of a throttle opening calculated from a plurality of required torques. Step 100 is performed to consolidate the plurality of required torques. Step 102 is then performed to judge whether the sensitivity of throttle opening variation corresponding to torque variation is high. When the sensitivity is judged to be high, step 106 is performed to convert only a fluctuating required torque to a throttle opening. Step 108 is then performed to consolidate the remaining required torques and convert the resulting consolidated required torque to a throttle opening. Next, the required throttle opening calculated in step 106 and the required throttle opening calculated in step 108 are consolidated to calculate a final throttle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8240412
    Abstract: A method of operating a hybrid vehicle propulsion system includes selectively operating the engine to consume fuel stored on-board the vehicle based on a residence time of the fuel stored on-board the vehicle and further based on a profile of ambient conditions over the residence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Jon Andri
  • Patent number: 8240290
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, when a fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure detecting unit is not smaller than a threshold P_a, the value opening time duration of a injector is increased to a value larger than its normal value, such control as to stop fuel injection from the injector is inhibited, the low pressure fuel pump is stopped, thus quickly lowering the fuel pressure. After the fuel pressure is lowered, the valve opening time duration of the injector is returned to the normal value, and a discharge quantity of the low pressure fuel pump is changed on the basis of a difference between the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure detecting unit and a target fuel pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Miyake, Masahiro Toyohara, Tomohiro Ohisa, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120203447
    Abstract: A system for measuring an injection process in a combustion engine includes a tank configured to hold a fuel. A storage container is configured to hold a compressed fuel. At least one injection valve is arranged at the storage container. A fuel line in which a fuel conveying pump and a high-pressure fuel pump are arranged. The fuel conveying pump and the high-pressure fuel pump are configured to convey the fuel into the storage container. A first pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure in the storage container. A detection device is configured to detect control data of the at least one injection valve. A measuring device is arranged in the fuel line. The measuring device is configured to measure a temporally resolved volumetric or gravimetric flow process. A processor is connected to the measuring device and to the first pressure sensor via a data transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: AVL List GmbH
    Inventor: Heribert Kammerstetter
  • Publication number: 20120203446
    Abstract: To provide a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that, in a turbocharged internal combustion engine including a waste gate valve, can favorably prevent an exhaust system part disposed downstream of a turbine from overheating, regardless of opening of the waste gate valve. The control apparatus includes a turbocharger having a turbine which is operative by exhaust energy and is disposed in an exhaust passage. The control apparatus further includes a WGV for opening or closing an exhaust bypass passage that bypasses the turbine. Timing to start fuel quantity increase control for preventing an exhaust system part, such as a catalyst, from overheating is advanced when the WGV is in an open state than when the WGV is in a closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20120203444
    Abstract: A startup control device is applied to a fuel injection system having a starter motor, which rotates a crankshaft of a diesel engine, a fuel pump that is driven by the engine, a common rail that accumulates a high-pressure fuel pumped by the fuel pump, and an injector that injects the high-pressure fuel into a cylinder. The startup control device includes an ECU that determines whether the startability of the engine is deteriorated. If the ECU determines that the startability of the engine is deteriorated, the ECU decreases the amount of fuel supplied from the common rail to the injector during one revolution of the crankshaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Niioka
  • Publication number: 20120203445
    Abstract: A fuel injection control for an internal combustion engine includes: estimating a convergence temperature of the exhaust gas catalytic converter; calculating an OTP boost value using the estimated convergence temperature; and estimating the convergence temperature on the assumption that the temperature decrement quantity of the exhaust gas catalytic converter which is caused by the power boosting is zero when both of the OTP boosting execution condition and the power boosting execution condition are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kachi, Yasuyuki Takama
  • Patent number: 8239116
    Abstract: In a method and an apparatus which more accurately reach a predefined setpoint value of a combustion characteristic variable for an internal combustion engine (1) with an injection system (30), a first injection signal which triggers an injection of fuel into a combustion chamber (53) of the internal combustion engine (1) is generated using at least one injection signal parameter. A combustion signal which represents a combustion of the injected fuel is generated by a detector (40). The combustion characteristic variable is determined using the combustion signal. The injection signal parameter is corrected using a deviation of the combustion characteristic variable from a setpoint value, in such a way that the deviation of a second injection signal which is generated using the corrected injection parameter is reduced for an injection which is to be performed later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Jung, Andreas Weigand
  • Patent number: 8239120
    Abstract: A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine to perform a lambda regulation without using a lambda sensor. Fuel is injected for combustion in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. A first quantity of the internal combustion engine is ascertained, which allows a conclusion to be drawn about the behavior of an output quantity of the internal combustion engine, in particular of a torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Mallebrein, Laurent Nack, Oliver Pechan, Pierre-Yves Crepin
  • Patent number: 8239101
    Abstract: Apparatus for a road vehicle has a plurality of deployable devices, each performing a crash safety function. A device controller controls deployment of a respective deployable device and that provides respective status messages according to a deployment status of the respective deployable device. Respective status messages for each deployable device include a ready message and a deployed message. A crash sensor detects a crash event when the vehicle is involved in an impact, wherein the crash sensor generates a crash event message. A display controller is coupled to the deployable devices to receive the status messages and coupled to the crash sensor to receive the crash event message. A display is coupled to the display controller for displaying status information to a driver of the vehicle. The displayed status information includes pre-crash status of the deployable devices and post-crash status of the deployable devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David J. Tippy
  • Patent number: 8239126
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a method and a system for evaluating the driving style of a driver in a motor vehicle with respect to the use of fuel. A disclosed method includes: determining a first value which is characteristic of the current speed of the vehicle; calculation of a second value by low-pass filtering said first value; and evaluating of the driving style with respect to the use of fuel by evaluating the difference between said first value and said second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Andreas Urhahne
  • Publication number: 20120197511
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus includes a first injection controller, a second injection controller, and a selector. The first injection controller is configured to perform a first injection operation in an intake stroke and is configured to perform a second injection operation in a compression stroke. The second injection controller is configured to perform both the first injection operation and the second injection operation in the intake stroke. The selector is configured to select fuel injection performed by the first injection controller when an internal combustion engine is in a warm-up operating state and is configured to select fuel injection performed by the second injection controller when the internal combustion engine is not in the warm-up operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko YAMADA, Masaaki Nagashima, Kan Nakaune, Tatsuhito Esaki, Nobuaki Ito, Kentaro Miki, Yutaka Sugahara
  • Publication number: 20120191325
    Abstract: A method for correcting main fuel injection quantities in an internal combustion engine in a plurality of cylinders of the engine includes monitoring a desired fuel injection quantity for the plurality of cylinders, monitoring an in-cylinder pressure for each of the cylinders, determining a burnt fuel mass resulting from a main fuel injection for each of the cylinders based upon the in-cylinder pressures, determining a fuel injection quantity correction for each of the cylinders based upon the burnt fuel masses, and controlling fuel injections into the plurality of cylinders based upon the desired fuel injection quantity and the fuel injection quantity correction for each of the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ibrahim Haskara, Yue-Yun Wang, Chol-Bum M. Kweon, Frederic Anton Matekunas, Oguz H. Dagci
  • Publication number: 20120191324
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine with a fuel reformer is presented. In one embodiment a method for operating an engine by injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel to at least an engine cylinder is presented. The mixture of an engine cylinder may be diluted with EGR and a fraction of gaseous fuel may be increased relative to a fraction of liquid fuel injected to a cylinder in response to an operator tip-out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Thomas G. Leone