Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10450995-B2
Application number	US-201615547973-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Feb 5, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device enabling the suppression of variations in the amount of fuel injected by injection while the boost voltage is charging, without offsetting the injection timing. A boost circuit (211) boosts a first voltage supplied from a battery (201), and supplies a boosted second voltage to a fuel injection device (214). Switches (212, 213) switch the second voltage supplied to the fuel injection device from the booster circuit on and off. Computation devices (204, 207) control the switches. Each computation device comprises: an estimation unit that, before the initial fuel injection in a combustion cycle, estimates the second voltage for all of the fuel injection times in the combustion cycle; and a correction unit that corrects the amount of fuel injected for each fuel injection time depending on the estimated second voltage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
a boost circuit configured to boost a first voltage supplied from a battery and to supply a boosted variable second voltage to a fuel injection device;
a switch configured to selectively turn the second voltage supplied from the boost circuit to the fuel injection device on and off; and
a processing device comprising at least one of a microcomputer and an integrated circuit, and configured to:
control the switch;
estimate a value of the second voltage at each of a plurality of fuel injection timings for a plurality of fuel injections during one combustion cycle, before an initial fuel injection of the plurality of fuel injections during the one combustion cycle; and
correct a fuel injection quantity at each of the plurality of fuel injection timings based on the estimated second voltage,

wherein the processing device is further configured to estimate the second voltage at the fuel injection timing, based on a boosted voltage drop quantity indicating a drop quantity of the second voltage when the fuel injection device performs, in a state in which the boost circuit is fully charged, the fuel injection once, a time to reach a peak current which is a maximum value of a drive current after the drive current is supplied to the fuel injection device, a restoration reference time indicating a time until the boost circuit is fully charged after the second voltage starts to drop when the fuel injection device performs the fuel injection once in a state in which the boost circuit is fully charged, and a number of times fuel injection is performed during the one combustion cycle.

2. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further configured to estimate the second voltage at each of the fuel injection timings during the one combustion cycle for each of a plurality of cylinders.

3. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is further configured to estimate the second voltage at the fuel injection timings, based on the second voltage at a predetermined timing before the initial fuel injection during the one combustion cycle.

4. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is configured to set the restoration reference time depending on the first voltage and a temperature of the control device.

5. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 4 , wherein the temperature of the control device is a substrate temperature of the control device or a temperature of the boost circuit.

6. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is configured to set the restoration reference time, depending on an averaged value of the first voltage.

7. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 4 , wherein the processing device is configured to set the restoration reference time such that that the restoration reference time increases as the first voltage decreases, and the processing device is configured to set the restoration reference time such that that the restoration reference time increases as the temperature of the control device increases.

8. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is configured to correct the fuel injection quantity to increase a fuel injection pulse width, in a case where the estimated second voltage is smaller than a reference voltage indicating a value of the second voltage when the boost circuit is fully charged.

9. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 8 , wherein the reference voltage is a voltage of the boost circuit which is measured before the fuel injection device injects fuel, after turning an ignition switch from off to on.

10. The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 8 , wherein the processing device is configured to correct the fuel injection quantity to decrease the fuel injection pulse width, in a case where the second voltage is larger than the reference voltage, and the reference voltage indicates a value of the second voltage when the boost circuit is fully charged.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Shingo
• Horii Tomoaki
• Nagase Mitsuru
• Yamaoka Shirou
• Kusakabe Ryo
• Itaya Takaki

Classifications

• F02D2200/0602

  Fuel pressure · CPC title

• F02D41/26

  using computer, e.g. microprocessor · CPC title

• F02M69/046

  for injecting into both the combustion chamber and the intake conduit · CPC title

• F02D2200/50

  said parameters being related to the vehicle or its components · CPC title

• F02D41/402

  Multiple injections · CPC title