Technique of detecting intake pressure of fuel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10513993-B2
Application number	US-201816129834-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2018
Priority date	Nov 29, 2017
Publication date	Dec 24, 2019
Grant date	Dec 24, 2019

Abstract

An intake pressure sensor is provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and detects an intake pressure. A crank angle sensor detects a crank angle of the single cylinder engine. A sampling unit samples the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes a sampling start angle. A calculation unit extracts M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit. The calculation unit acquires, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intake pressure detection apparatus comprising:
an intake pressure sensor provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and configured to detect an intake pressure;
a crank angle sensor configured to detect a crank angle of the single cylinder engine;
a sampling unit configured to sample the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes a sampling start angle; and
a calculation unit configured to extract M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit and acquire, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the calculation unit acquires the average value of the P intake pressures remaining after a maximum value and a minimum value of the M intake pressures are excluded.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sampling unit samples the intake pressure in an intake stroke of the single cylinder engine.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising an identification unit configured to identify the intake stroke of the single cylinder engine based on an output signal output from the crank angle sensor,
wherein when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes the sampling start angle in the intake stroke identified by the identification unit, the sampling unit starts sampling of the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising a sampling control unit configured to not to permit the sampling unit to sample the intake pressure until the identification unit becomes able to identify the intake stroke of the single cylinder engine and permit the sampling unit to sample the intake pressure when the identification unit has become able to identify the intake stroke of the single cylinder engine.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sampling unit does not sample the intake pressure at a start of the single cylinder engine.

7. An intake pressure detection apparatus comprising:
an intake pressure sensor provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and configured to detect an intake pressure;
a sampling unit configured to sample the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor in an intake stroke of the single cylinder engine; and
a calculation unit configured to extract M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit and acquire, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded.

8. An electronically controlled fuel supply apparatus comprising:
an intake pressure sensor provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and configured to detect an intake pressure;
a crank angle sensor configured to detect a crank angle of the single cylinder engine;
a sampling unit configured to sample the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes a sampling start angle;
a calculation unit configured to extract M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit and acquire, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded;
a decision unit configured to decide an injection amount of fuel to implement a predetermined air fuel ratio based on the average value of the intake pressures obtained by the calculation unit; and
an injector configured to inject the fuel in the injection amount decided by the decision unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , further comprising an injection amount control unit configured to execute speed-density control based on the injection amount of the fuel decided by the decision unit.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamamura Yoichi

Classifications

• F02D41/34

  with means for controlling injection timing or duration · CPC title

• F02D41/0002

  Controlling intake air · CPC title

• F02D2700/0266

  for engines with fuel injection · CPC title

• F02D2700/0235

  depending on the pressure of a gaseous or liquid medium · CPC title

• F02D2400/02

  Four-stroke combustion engines with electronic control · CPC title