Fuel injection device of engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10914244-B2
Application number	US-201816054133-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2018
Priority date	Aug 25, 2017
Publication date	Feb 9, 2021
Grant date	Feb 9, 2021

Abstract

A control device of an engine including a cylinder, a piston, a cylinder head, and a combustion chamber is provided, which includes intake and exhaust ports, a swirl control valve provided in an intake passage connected to the intake port, a fuel injection valve attached to the cylinder head to be oriented into the center of the combustion chamber in a plan view thereof, 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 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 injector to inject fuel at a given timing at which the swirl ratio becomes 2 or above.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. 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 SI combustion through flame propagation and then unburned mixture gas to perform CI combustion by self-ignition, comprising:
a tumble port configured to generate an inclined swirl flow in the combustion chamber flowing obliquely with respect to a center axis of the combustion chamber;
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 from a radial center of a ceiling of the combustion chamber;
a swirl control valve configured to generate the inclined swirl flow inside the combustion chamber in combination with the tumble port; and
a controller configured to control the spark plug and the fuel injection valve,
wherein the controller 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, and
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, the spray of the first fuel portion reaching the swirl flow and then the spray of the second fuel portion reaching a position to which the first fuel portion moves by the swirl flow.

2. 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 the radial center of the ceiling 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.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the fuel injection valve is disposed in the center portion of the combustion chamber and has at least a first injection port and a second injection 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 injection port and the second injection port, respectively.

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

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the controller 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.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the injection timing is set at a plurality of timings, and
wherein the controller 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.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the controller adjusts an opening of the swirl control valve based on a swirl control valve opening map which determines the opening of the swirl control valve based on an engine speed to an engine load, and
wherein the controller adjusts the injection timing based on a fuel injection timing map which determines the fuel injection timing based on the engine load.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the controller selects the given injection timing so as to achieve a predetermined combustion stability with a fuel amount of the plurality of fuel portions.

9. 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 tumble port configured to generate an inclined swirl flow in the combustion chamber flowing obliquely with respect to a center axis of the combustion chamber;
a fuel injection valve configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber;
a swirl control valve configured to generate the inclined swirl flow inside the combustion chamber in combination with the tumble port; 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, the spray of the first fuel portion reaching the swirl flow and then the spray of the second fuel portion reaching a position to which the first fuel portion moves by the swirl flow.

10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the swirl control valve generates the swirl flow at a swirl ratio of 4 or above.

11. The device of claim 9 , 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 9 , 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.

13. The device of claim 11 , 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.

Assignees

• Mazda Motor

Inventors

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

Classifications

• F01B11/00

  Reciprocating-piston machines or engines without rotary main shaft, e.g. of free-piston type · CPC title

• F02D41/3023

  a mode being the stratified charge spark-ignited mode · CPC title

• F02B2023/108

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

• F02M61/1806

  characterised by the arrangement of discharge orifices, e.g. orientation or size · CPC title

• F02D41/401

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