Fuel injector control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10352264-B2
Application number	US-201615740670-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2016
Priority date	Jul 9, 2015
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

Since a factor affecting an individual difference learning result is reduced or eliminated regardless of a valve body behavior, it is possible to highly accurately detect an individual difference of a fuel injector caused by the valve body behavior and to reliably detect the individual difference even when the fuel injector is replaced. When a valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector is learned by a learning unit, a unit of interrupting the learning if a predetermined condition is established, a unit of prohibiting the learning of the valve closing timing using the learning unit if a predetermined condition is established, or a unit of prohibiting the learning of the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector using the learning unit if a fuel pressure of a common rail supplying a fuel to the plurality of fuel injectors changes by a predetermined value or more within a predetermined time is provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control system comprising:
a fuel injector control device configured to control a plurality of fuel injectors, the fuel injector control device comprising:
a control unit that detects a valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector; and
a learning unit that learns the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector on the basis of a driving voltage applied to the fuel injector or a driving current flowing to the fuel injector, wherein
the learning of the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector using the learning unit is prohibited if a predetermined condition is established, the predetermined condition being associated with an operation of an internal combustion engine, and
the predetermined condition is set to at least one of a time until the internal combustion engine is prohibited and a supply of power to an internal combustion engine control device is prohibited from a time point in which any one of conditions is established, that is, a predetermined learning procedure ends after the internal combustion engine starts, and a correction based on learning information obtained by the learning ends.

2. The control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector is learned by the learning unit, the learning is prohibited if the predetermined condition is established.

3. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the learning of the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector using the learning unit is prohibited if a fuel pressure of a common rail supplying a fuel to the plurality of fuel injectors changes by a predetermined value or more within a predetermined time.

4. The control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the predetermined condition indicates a case where a difference between information obtained during the learning and predetermined information stored at a time point of starting the learning becomes a predetermined range or more, wherein the predetermined range is greater than zero.

5. The control system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the predetermined information indicates a state where a valve body behavior of the fuel injector changes every injection operation and includes at least one or more of a power voltage, a driving current waveform, and a temperature of the fuel injector, a water temperature, an oil temperature, a fuel temperature, an intake air temperature, a rotation speed, a load, and a pulse signal width of the internal combustion engine, a fuel injection start timing, a fuel injection completion timing, and an oil temperature of a vehicle driving system to be recognized by the control device.

6. The control system according to claim 5 ,
wherein a multi-stage injection control of injecting a fuel multiple times during one combustion cycle is executable and the predetermined information includes at least one or more of a case where the injection stage number is changed, a case where a time interval from a precedent injection start to a subsequent injection start becomes a given value, and a case where a time interval from a precedent injection end to a subsequent injection start becomes the given value in addition to the information of claim 5 , wherein the given value is greater than zero.

7. The control system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the predetermined condition indicates a state where a valve body behavior of the fuel injector changes every injection operation and includes a case where a driving current waveform of the fuel injector does not become a predetermined waveform, a case where one or more of a power voltage and a temperature of the fuel injector, a water temperature, an oil temperature, a fuel temperature, an intake air temperature, a rotation speed, a load, and a pulse signal width of the internal combustion engine, and an oil temperature of a vehicle driving system becomes a given value or out of a predetermined range, and a case where at least one of a fuel injection start timing and a fuel injection completion timing becomes out of a predetermined range to be recognized by the control device, wherein the given value is greater than zero.

8. The control system according to claim 7 ,
wherein a multi-stage injection control of injecting a fuel multiple times during one combustion cycle is executable and the predetermined information includes at least one or more of a case where the injection stage number is changed, a case where a time interval from a precedent injection start to a subsequent injection start becomes a given value, and a case where a time interval from a precedent injection end to a subsequent injection start becomes the given value in addition to the information of claim 7 , wherein the given value is greater than zero.

9. The control system according to claim 8 ,
wherein when the learning is started again after the learning is interrupted, all learning information obtained before the interruption is discarded and a predetermined learning procedure is executed from the beginning.

10. The control system according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a learning start time information storage unit that stores predetermined information at the time of starting the learning,
wherein information of the learning start time condition storage unit is compared with recent predetermined information when the learning is started again after the learning is interrupted, and if it is determined that both information items are within a predetermined range, a learned value obtained before the interruption of the learning is used and the learning process is resumed from a time point in which the learning is interrupted in a predetermined learning procedure.

11. The control system according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a desired fuel pressure control unit,
wherein a control target fuel pressure at a time point in which the learning is started is stored and when a difference between the stored control target fuel pressure and a control target fuel pressure during the learning becomes a given value, the learning is interrupted or prohibited, wherein the given value is greater than zero.

12. The control system according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a desired fuel pressure control unit,
wherein when a difference between a control target fuel pressure during the learning and a fuel pressure of a common rail supplying a fuel to the plurality of fuel injectors becomes a given value, the learning of the valve opening/closing timing of the fuel injector using the learning unit is prohibited, wherein the given value is greater than zero.

13. The control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the driving current or the driving time of the fuel injector is corrected for each fuel injector on the basis of a learned value obtained by the learning after a learning procedure is completed.

14. The control system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the predetermined condition is set to a time until the internal combustion engine is prohibited or a supply of power to an internal combustion engine control device is prohibited from a time point in which any one of conditions is established, that is, a predetermined learning procedure ends after the internal combustion engine starts or a correction based on learning information obtained by the learning ends.

15. The control system according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a desired fuel pressure control unit,
wherein a control target fuel pressure at a time point in which the learning is started is stored and when a difference between the stored control target fuel pressure and a control target fuel pressur

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Mukaihara Osamu
• Toyohara Masahiro

Classifications

• F02M65/00

  Testing fuel-injection apparatus, e.g. testing injection timing {(testing of ignition F02P17/00; measuring fuel consumption G01F9/00); Cleaning of fuel-injection apparatus} · CPC title

• F02M51/00

  Fuel-injection apparatus characterised by being operated electrically · CPC title

• F02D45/00

  Electrical control not provided for in groups F02D41/00 - F02D43/00 · CPC title

• F02D41/401

  Controlling injection timing (F02D41/402 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02D41/2448

  Prohibition of learning · CPC title