Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10125714-B2
Application number	US-201715409390-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2017
Priority date	Jan 27, 2016
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

A control device for an internal combustion engine is equipped with an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: i) calculate amplitudes of respective waves, respectively, originating from a plurality of factors that causes fuel pressure pulsation within a low-pressure fuel passage, vibration frequencies of the respective waves within a crank angle range of 360 degrees, initial phases of the respective waves, and central fuel pressure values of the respective waves; and ii) predict a fuel pressure value at an arbitrary crank angle according to a model formula showing a synthesized wave obtained by synthesizing the respective waves, on a basis of the amplitudes, the vibration frequencies, the initial phases, and the central fuel pressure values of the respective waves calculated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
an in-cylinder injection valve configured to directly inject fuel into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine;
a port injection valve configured to inject fuel into an intake port of the internal combustion engine;
a low-pressure pump configured to pressurize fuel;
a low-pressure fuel passage configured to supply the fuel pressurized by the low-pressure pump to a plurality of the port injection valves;
a high-pressure pump configured to be driven in an interlocking mariner with the internal combustion engine and further pressurize the fuel supplied from the low-pressure fuel passage;
a high-pressure fuel passage configured to branch from the low-pressure fuel passage and supply the fuel pressurized by the high-pressure pump to a plurality of the in-cylinder injection valves;
a crank angle sensor configured to detect a crank angle of the internal combustion engine; and
an electronic control unit configured to:
i) calculate amplitudes of respective waves, respectively, originating from a plurality of factors that generate fuel pressure pulsation within the low-pressure fuel passage, vibration frequencies of the respective waves within a crank angle range of 360 degrees, initial phases of the respective waves, and central fuel pressure values of the respective waves,
ii) predict a fuel pressure value at an arbitrary crank angle according to a following model formula showing a synthesized wave obtained by synthesizing the respective waves, on a basis of the amplitudes, the vibration frequencies, the initial phases, and the central fuel pressure values of the respective waves calculated,

P
⁡

(
θ
)

=

∑

k
=
1

n

⁢

⁢

A
k

⁢
cos
⁢

{

B
k

⁡

(

θ
-

C
k

)

}

+

D
k

where P is a fuel pressure value of the synthesized wave corresponding to the crank angle, θ is the crank angle, A K is the amplitudes of the respective waves, B k is the vibration frequencies of the respective waves within the crank angle range of 360 degrees, C k is the initial phases of the respective waves, D k is the central fuel pressure values of the respective waves, and
iii) calculate an energization period of the port infection valve on a basis of the predicted fuel pressure value such that the port injection valve performs injection by a required injection amount.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to calculate the amplitudes, the vibration frequencies, the initial phases, and the central fuel pressure values of respective waves, respectively, originating from the high-pressure pump, the low-pressure pump and the port injection valves.

3. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to:
i) perform calculation such that one of the amplitudes of the respective waves originating from the low-pressure pump increases as a rotating speed of the low-pressure pump increases;
ii) calculate, as one of the vibration frequencies of the respective waves originating from the low-pressure pump, a value obtained by multiplying a ratio of the rotating speed of the low-pressure pump to a rotating speed of the internal combustion engine by a periodic number of a duty signal of a driving voltage of the low-pressure pump required for rotating the low-pressure pump; and
iii) calculate one of the initial phases of the respective waves originating from the low-pressure pump on a basis of the crank angle at a timing when the driving voltage of the low-pressure pump is switched from on-duty to off-duty first after the crank angle reaches zero.

4. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to:
i) perform calculation such that one of the amplitudes of the respective waves originating from the port injection valve increases as an energization period of the port injection valve from which fuel is most recently injected is long; and
ii) calculate one of the initial phases of the respective waves originating from the port injection valve, on a basis of the crank angle at a injection start timing of the port injection valve.

5. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to:
i) calculate the central fuel pressure values originating from the high-pressure pump and the port injection valve, respectively, as zero; and
ii) calculate one of the central fuel pressure values of the respective waves originating from the low-pressure pump, on a basis of any of a rotating speed of the low-pressure pump, an averaging value of a detection value of a fuel pressure sensor that detects a fuel pressure value within the low-pressure fuel passage, and a target fuel pressure value that is a target value of the fuel pressure value within the low-pressure fuel passage.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tachibana Rintarou
• Suda Tooru
• Idogawa Masanao

Classifications

• F02D2250/04

  Fuel pressure pulsation in common rails · CPC title

• F02D41/20

  Output circuits, e.g. for controlling currents in command coils · CPC title

• F02D2200/101

  Engine speed · CPC title

• F02D41/3094

  the fuel injection being effected by at least two different injectors, e.g. one in the intake manifold and one in the cylinder · CPC title

• F02D2200/0604

  Estimation of fuel pressure · CPC title