Fuel injection control device and method for engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10132263-B2
Application number	US-201715642651-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2017
Priority date	Jul 12, 2016
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A fuel injection control device learns a port injection learning value and a direct injection learning value separately for each of learning regions that are divided according to the engine operating state. It is assumed that a port injection learning condition and a direct injection learning condition are both satisfied in a learning region in which neither the learning of the port injection learning value nor the learning of the direct injection learning value has been completed. In such a situation, the fuel injection control device executes the port injection learning process if the ratio of the port injection amount is less than the ratio of the direct injection amount, and executes the direct injection learning process if the ratio of the direct injection amount is less than the ratio of the port injection amount.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fuel injection control device for an engine, the engine including a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake port and a direct injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder, the fuel injection control device comprising:
a distribution ratio calculation section, which is configured to calculate, in accordance with an engine operating state, an injection distribution ratio that is a ratio between a port injection amount, which is an amount of fuel injected from the port injection valve, and a direct injection amount, which is an amount of fuel injected from the direct injection valve;
a learning control section, which is configured to learn a port injection learning value, which is an air-fuel ratio learning value for port injection, and a direct injection learning value, which is an air-fuel ratio learning value for direct injection, separately for each of a plurality of learning regions that are divided according to the engine operating state, wherein
the learning control section executes a port injection learning process to learn the port injection learning value in response to satisfaction of a specified port injection learning condition after changing the injection distribution ratio such that a ratio of the port injection amount becomes 100% and a ratio of the direct injection amount becomes 0%, and
the learning control section executes a direct injection learning process to learn the direct injection learning value in response to satisfaction of a specified direct injection learning condition after changing the injection distribution ratio such that the ratio of the port injection amount becomes 0% and the ratio of the direct injection amount becomes 100%; and

an injection control section, which is configured to
distribute a total amount of fuel to be used for combustion in the cylinder to the port injection amount and the direct injection amount in accordance with the injection distribution ratio,
correct the distributed port injection amount and direct injection amount using the port injection learning value and the direct injection learning value, respectively, and
control fuel injection of the port injection valve and fuel injection of the direct injection valve based on the corrected port injection amount and the corrected direct injection amount, respectively,

wherein the learning control section is configured such that, when the port injection learning condition and the direct injection learning condition are both satisfied in a learning region in which neither the learning of the port injection learning value nor the learning of the direct injection learning value has been completed, the learning control section
executes the port injection learning process if the ratio of the port injection amount in the injection distribution ratio calculated by the distribution ratio calculation section is less than the ratio of the direct injection amount, and
executes the direct injection learning process if the ratio of the direct injection amount in the injection distribution ratio is less than the ratio of the port injection amount.

2. The fuel injection control device for an engine according to claim 1 , wherein the learning control section is configured to, when a temperature of a nozzle hole of the direct injection valve exceeds a specified value during execution of the port injection learning process, temporarily change the injection distribution ratio such that fuel injection from the direct injection valve is executed while continuing the port injection learning process.

3. The fuel injection control device for an engine according to claim 2 , wherein the learning control section is configured to set the injection distribution ratio at the time of making the temporary change based on the temperature of the nozzle hole of the direct injection valve.

4. The fuel injection control device for an engine according to claim 1 , further comprising a fuel pressure control section, which is configured to variably control a fuel supply pressure to the direct injection valve,
wherein the fuel pressure control section is configured to, when the learning of the direct injection learning value has not been completed in a learning region in which the total amount of fuel is less than or equal to a specified value, set an upper limit value of a control range of the fuel supply pressure to be lower than that in a state in which the learning has been completed.

5. The fuel injection control device for an engine according to claim 4 , wherein
the direct injection learning value in a learning region in which the total amount of fuel is less than or equal to the specified value is defined as a learning value X, and
the learning control section is configured to, when an initial learning of the learning value X has not been completed, set the upper limit value of the control range of the fuel supply pressure to be even lower than that in a state in which the learning of the learning value X for second and subsequent times has not been completed.

6. A fuel injection control method for an engine, the engine including a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake port and a direct injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder, the fuel injection control method comprising:
calculating, in accordance with an engine operating state, an injection distribution ratio that is a ratio between a port injection amount, which is an amount of fuel injected from the port injection valve, and a direct injection amount, which is an amount of fuel injected from the direct injection valve;
learning a port injection learning value, which is an air-fuel ratio learning value for port injection, and a direct injection learning value, which is an air-fuel ratio learning value for direct injection, separately for each of a plurality of learning regions that are divided according to the engine operating state, wherein
the learning of the port injection learning value includes executing the learning of the port injection learning value in response to satisfaction of a specified port injection learning condition after changing the injection distribution ratio such that a ratio of the port injection amount becomes 100% and a ratio of the direct injection amount becomes 0%, and
the learning of the direct injection learning value includes executing the learning of the direct injection learning value in response to satisfaction of a specified direct injection learning condition after changing the injection distribution ratio such that the ratio of the port injection amount becomes 0% and the ratio of the direct injection amount becomes 100%;

distributing a total amount of fuel to be used for combustion in the cylinder to the port injection amount and the direct injection amount in accordance with the injection distribution ratio;
correcting the distributed port injection amount and direct injection amount using the port injection learning value and the direct injection learning value, respectively;
controlling fuel injection of the port injection valve and fuel injection of the direct injection valve based on the corrected port injection amount and the corrected direct injection amount, respectively; and
when the port injection learning condition and the direct injection learning condition are both satisfied in a learning region in which neither the learning of the port injection learning value nor the learning of the direct injection learning value has been completed,
executing the learning of the port injection learning value if the ratio of the port injection amount in the calculated injection distribution ratio is less than the ratio of the direct injection amount, and
executing the learning of the direct injection learning value if the ratio of the direct inject

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kuroda Ryusuke
• Idogawa Masanao

Classifications

• F02D41/1454

  the characteristics being an oxygen content or concentration or the air-fuel ratio · 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

• F02D41/248

  using a plurality of learned values · CPC title

• F02D41/2461 Primary

  by learning a value and then controlling another value · CPC title

• F02D2200/06

  Fuel or fuel supply system parameters · CPC title