Fuel injection device of engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10480395-B2
Application number	US-201816052812-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2018
Priority date	Aug 25, 2017
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A control device of an engine including a cylinder, a piston, a cylinder head, and a combustion chamber, is provided. The device includes intake and exhaust ports, a swirl control valve, a fuel injection valve attached to the cylinder head to be oriented into the combustion chamber and having first and second nozzle ports, and a control unit. The control unit includes a processor configured to execute a swirl opening controlling module to control the swirl control valve to have a given opening at which a swirl ratio inside the combustion chamber becomes 2 or above, and a fuel injection timing controlling module to control the fuel injection valve to inject fuel at a given timing at which the swirl ratio becomes 2 or above and a swirl flow from a lower portion to a higher portion of the combustion chamber in a side view occurs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device of an engine including a cylinder, a piston for reciprocating inside the cylinder along a center axis thereof, a cylinder head, and a combustion chamber formed by the cylinder, the piston, and the cylinder head, comprising:
an intake port configured to introduce intake air into the combustion chamber;
an exhaust port configured to discharge exhaust gas from the combustion chamber;
a swirl control valve provided in an intake passage connected to the intake port;
a fuel injection valve attached to the cylinder head, disposed to be oriented into the center of the combustion chamber in a plan view thereof, and having a first nozzle port with a nozzle port axis extending to the exhaust port side in the plan view and a second nozzle port with a nozzle port axis extending to the intake port side in the plan view; and
a control unit connected to the fuel injection valve and the swirl control valve and configured to output a control signal to the fuel injection valve and the swirl control valve, respectively, the control unit including a processor configured to execute a swirl opening controlling module to output the control signal to the swirl control valve to have a given opening at which a swirl ratio inside the combustion chamber becomes 2 or above, and a fuel injection timing controlling module to output the control signal to the fuel injection valve to inject fuel at a given timing at which the swirl ratio becomes 2 or above and a swirl flow from a lower portion to a higher portion of the combustion chamber in a side view of the combustion chamber occurs.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the swirl control valve generates a swirl flow at a swirl ratio of 4 or above.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control unit controls the fuel injection valve to inject a first fuel portion and a second fuel portion at a pressure between 30 MPa and 120 MPa.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the fuel injection valve has eight to ten nozzle ports at an even interval in a circumferential direction thereof,
wherein the fuel injection valve injects the fuel so that spray thereof radially spreads obliquely downward from a radial center of a ceiling portion of the combustion chamber, and
wherein an injection angle of each of the nozzle ports with respect to an injection axis of the fuel injection valve is between 30 and 60 degrees.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the fuel injection valve has eight to ten nozzle ports at an even interval in a circumferential direction thereof,
wherein the fuel injection valve injects the fuel so that spray thereof radially spreads obliquely downward from a radial center of a ceiling portion of the combustion chamber, and
wherein an injection angle of each of the nozzle ports with respect to an injection axis of the fuel injection valve is between 30 and 60 degrees.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the fuel injection valve further injects a third fuel portion and a fourth fuel portion of which sprays reach the swirl flow generated by the swirl control valve, and
wherein, after the spray of the third fuel portion reaches the swirl flow, the spray of the fourth fuel portion reaches the position to which the spray of the third fuel portion moves by the swirl flow.

7. A fuel injection device of an engine formed with a combustion chamber having a bottom surface formed by a piston for reciprocating inside a cylinder along a center axis thereof, causing a mixture gas to start spark ignition (SI) combustion through flame propagation and then unburned mixture gas to perform compression ignition (CI) combustion by self-ignition, comprising:
a spark plug configured to ignite in a center portion of the combustion chamber;
a fuel injection valve configured to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber;
a swirl control valve configured to generate a swirl flow inside the combustion chamber; and
a control unit configured to control the spark plug and the fuel injection valve,
wherein the control unit controls the fuel injection valve to inject the fuel at a given injection timing after the swirl flow generation, and controls the spark plug to ignite at a given ignition timing after the fuel injection,
wherein the fuel injection valve, when injecting the fuel at the injection timing, injects a plurality of fuel portions at least including a first fuel portion and a second fuel portion of which sprays reach the swirl flow generated by the swirl control valve, and
wherein, when a position at which the spray of the first fuel portion reaches the swirl flow is a first position and a position at which the spray of the second fuel portion reaches the swirl flow is a second position, the spray of the first fuel portion reaches the first position and then moves away from the second position by the swirl flow before the spray of the second fuel portion reaches the second position.

8. The device of claim 7 , wherein the swirl control valve forms an inclined swirl flow flowing obliquely with respect to the center axis.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the fuel injection valve is disposed in the center portion of the combustion chamber and has at least a first nozzle port and a second nozzle port of which injecting directions are different in a circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve, and
wherein the first fuel portion and the second fuel portion are simultaneously injected from the first nozzle port and the second nozzle port, respectively.

10. The device of claim 7 , wherein the swirl control valve generates a swirl flow at a swirl ratio of 4 or above.

11. The device of claim 7 , wherein the control unit controls the fuel injection valve to inject the first fuel portion and the second fuel portion at a pressure between 30 MPa and 120 MPa.

12. The device of claim 7 , wherein the fuel injection valve, when injecting the fuel at the injection timing, further injects a third fuel portion and a fourth fuel portion of which sprays reach the swirl flow generated by the swirl control valve, and
wherein, after the spray of the third fuel portion reaches the swirl flow, the spray of the fourth fuel portion reaches the position to which the spray of the third fuel portion moves by the swirl flow.

13. The device of claim 7 , wherein the injection timing is set at a plurality of timings, and
wherein the control unit controls the spark plug and the fuel injection valve so that a center of gravity of a mixture gas distribution formed by the fuel injected at each of the plurality of timings is located in the center portion of the combustion chamber at the ignition timing.

14. A fuel injection device of an engine formed with a combustion chamber having a bottom surface formed by a piston for reciprocating inside a cylinder along a center axis thereof, comprising:
a fuel injection valve configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber;
a swirl control valve configured to generate a swirl flow inside the combustion chamber; and
a control unit configured to control the fuel injection valve,
wherein the fuel injection valve injects a plurality of fuel portions at least including a first fuel portion and a second fuel portion of which sprays reach the swirl flow generated by the swirl control valve, and
wherein, when a position at which the spray of the first fuel portion reaches the swirl flow is a first position and a position at which the spray of the second fuel portion reaches the swirl flow is a second position, the spray of the first fuel portion reaches the first position and then moves away from the second position by the swirl flow before the spray of the second fuel por

Assignees

• Mazda Motor

Inventors

• Matsumoto Kota
• Urushihara Tomonori
• SUEOKA Masanari
• Maruyama Keiji
• Miyamoto Toru
• Koshiro Yudai
• Pak Gyetae

Classifications

• F02D2041/389

  for injecting directly into the cylinder · CPC title

• F02B31/06

  Movable means, e.g. butterfly valves · CPC title

• F02B2023/108

  Swirl flow, i.e. the axis of rotation of the main charge flow motion is vertical · CPC title

• F02D41/402

  Multiple injections · CPC title

• F02B23/101 Primary

  the injector being placed on or close to the cylinder centre axis, e.g. with mixture formation using spray guided concepts · CPC title