Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10450984-B2
Application number	US-201815938513-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2018
Priority date	Apr 11, 2014
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel tank, a high pressure fuel passage, a pressure increasing device, a switching device, a low pressure fuel passage, a temperature sensor, a fuel injector, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine that there is an abnormality in the switching device when a temperature measured by the temperature sensor when the pressure increase signal is output is not higher than a temperature measured by the temperature sensor when the pressure increase signal is not output. The electronic control unit is configured to stop fuel pressure increase by the pressure increasing device by stopping an output of the pressure increase signal regardless of the engine operation state when the electronic control unit determines that there is the abnormality in the switching device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
a fuel tank;
a high pressure fuel passage through which fuel flows, the fuel being supplied from the fuel tank and having a pressure increased by a supply pump;
a pressure increasing device that includes a piston configured to increase the pressure of fuel supplied from the high pressure fuel passage;
a switching device that includes a valve configured to switch a state of connection with the pressure increasing device between a first connection state, in which the pressure increasing device and the high pressure fuel passage are connected to each other, and a second connection state, in which the pressure increasing device and the fuel tank are connected to each other, to drive the pressure increasing device;
a low pressure fuel passage through which fuel, which returns to the fuel tank without being increased in pressure by the pressure increasing device, flows when the connection state is switched to the second connection state and the pressure of fuel is increased by the pressure increasing device;
a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of fuel flowing through the low pressure fuel passage;
a fuel injector configured to inject fuel having the pressure increased by the pressure increasing device; and
an electronic control unit configured to determine to increase the pressure of fuel based on an operation state of the internal combustion engine, the electric control unit being configured to increase the pressure of fuel by outputting a pressure increase signal for switching the connection state to the second connection state, when the electronic control unit determines that the pressure of fuel is to be increased, wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to determine that there is an abnormality in the switching device when a temperature measured by the temperature sensor when the pressure increase signal is output is not higher than a temperature measured by the temperature sensor when the pressure increase signal is not output; and
the electronic control unit is configured to stop fuel pressure increase performed by the pressure increasing device by stopping an output of the pressure increase signal regardless of the operation state of the internal combustion engine when the electronic control unit determines that there is the abnormality in the switching device.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the pressure increasing device;
the electronic control unit is configured to control the fuel injector to inject the fuel when the electronic control unit determines that there is the abnormality in the pressure increasing device and there is the abnormality in the switching device; and
the electronic control unit is configured to control the fuel injector to stop injecting the fuel when the electronic control unit determines that there is the abnormality in the pressure increasing device and there is no abnormality in the switching device.

3. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the internal combustion engine includes a rail pressure sensor configured to measure the pressure of the fuel which flows through the high pressure fuel passage and an injection pressure sensor configured to measure the pressure of the fuel in the fuel injector;
the electronic control unit includes a storage unit configured to store a pressure increase ratio of the pressure increasing device; and
the electronic control unit is configured to determine that there is the abnormality in the pressure increasing device when the electronic control unit determines that an absolute value of a difference between a product of the fuel pressure measured by the rail pressure sensor and the pressure increase ratio and the fuel pressure measured by the injection pressure sensor is equal to or greater than a predetermined difference.

4. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to determine whether there is the abnormality in at least one of the pressure increasing device and the fuel injector; and
the electronic control unit is configured to determine whether or not there is the abnormality in the switching device when the electronic control unit detects that there is the abnormality in at least one of the pressure increasing device and the fuel injector.

5. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in at least one of the pressure increasing device and the fuel injector;
the electronic control unit is configured to stop fuel pressure increase performed by the pressure increasing device when the electronic control unit determines that there is the abnormality in the switching device; and
the electronic control unit is configured to control the fuel injector to stop injecting the fuel when the electronic control unit determines that there is no abnormality in the switching device and there is the abnormality in at least one of the pressure increasing device and the fuel injector.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hirano Takahiro

Classifications

• F02M59/105

  hydraulic drive (F02M59/32 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02M57/025

  hydraulic, e.g. with pressure amplification · CPC title

• F02M47/00

  Fuel-injection apparatus operated cyclically with fuel-injection valves actuated by fluid pressure (fuel- injectors actuated by the pressure in engine working cylinders F02M49/00) · CPC title

• F02D41/3836

  Controlling the fuel pressure · CPC title

• F02D41/221 Primary

  relating to the failure of actuators or electrically driven elements · CPC title