Fuel injection system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11225928-B2
Application number	US-202117322006-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 17, 2021
Priority date	Nov 19, 2018
Publication date	Jan 18, 2022
Grant date	Jan 18, 2022

Abstract

A pressure detection unit detects a fuel pressure in high-pressure fuel passages. A drive control unit controls opening and closing of pressure adjusting valves based on a drive command signal output to the fuel injection valve. An acquisition unit acquires an inflection point of the fuel pressure detected by the pressure detection unit and an inclination of the fuel pressure after the inflection point appears, after an output of the drive command signal. A delay time computation unit computes a response delay time of the pressure adjusting valve with respect to the drive command signal for each of the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve based on the inflection point and the inclination acquired by the acquisition unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel injection system including an accumulator container configured to accumulate fuel in a high-pressure state, and a fuel injection valve configured to inject high-pressure fuel in the accumulator container to a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, wherein
the fuel injection valve includes
a control chamber configured to be supplied with the high-pressure fuel from the accumulator container through a high-pressure fuel passage,
a needle valve configured to move in an axial direction according to a fuel pressure inside the control chamber to open an injection hole to inject the fuel, and
a pressure adjusting valve placed in a fuel passage connected to the control chamber and configured to allow and to shut off an outflow of the fuel from the control chamber to adjust the fuel pressure inside the control chamber,
the fuel passage includes a first fuel passage having a first orifice and a second fuel passage having a second orifice that is configured to limit a flow rate of the fuel through a flow passage area different from a flow passage area of the first orifice,
the pressure adjusting valve includes a first on-off valve placed in the first fuel passage and a second on-off valve placed in the second fuel passage, and
the system comprising:
a pressure detection unit configured to detect the fuel pressure in the high-pressure fuel passage;
a drive control unit configured to control opening and closing of the pressure adjusting valve based on a drive command signal output to the fuel injection valve;
an acquisition unit configured to acquire an inflection point of the fuel pressure detected by the pressure detection unit and an inclination of the fuel pressure after the inflection point appears, after an output of the drive command signal; and
a delay time computation unit configured to compute a response delay time of the pressure adjusting valve with respect to the drive command signal for each of the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve based on the inflection point and the inclination acquired by the acquisition unit.

2. The fuel injection system according to claim 1 , wherein
the delay time computation unit is configured to
compute the response delay time of the pressure adjusting valve with respect to the drive command signal for each of the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve and
specify whether the appearance of the inflection point is caused by a response delay of the first on-off valve or a response delay of the second on-off valve based on the inclination.

3. The fuel injection system according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a storage unit configured to store a correspondence between the inclination and an on-off state of each of the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve, wherein
the delay time computation unit is configured to specify whether the appearance of the inflection point is caused by the response delay of the first on-off valve or the response delay of the second on-off valve based on the correspondence stored in the storage unit and the inclination acquired currently by the acquisition unit.

4. The fuel injection system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a pressure-reducing control unit configured to open the second on-off valve while the first on-off valve is closed to discharge the fuel from the control chamber to reduce the fuel pressure inside the accumulator container without injecting the fuel from the injection hole.

5. The fuel injection system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an injection correction unit configured to correct the drive command signal for each of the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve by using the response delay time computed by the delay time computation unit.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Kanno Hiroshi

Classifications

• F02D2200/0602

  Fuel pressure · CPC title

• F02D41/3845

  by controlling the flow into the common rail, e.g. the amount of fuel pumped · CPC title

• F02D41/1401

  characterised by the control or regulation method (F02D41/1473, F02D41/1477 take precedence) · CPC title

• F02D2041/1431

  the system including an input-output delay · CPC title

• F02M61/10

  Other injectors with elongated valve bodies, i.e. of needle-valve type · CPC title