Cold start split injection control method and engine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11352969-B2
Application number	US-202016842271-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2020
Priority date	Feb 4, 2020
Publication date	Jun 7, 2022
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022

Abstract

A cold start split injection control method is provided. The method includes a split injection controller which determines cold start conditions of an engine system, an injection mode control which performs a cold start split injection by an operation of an injector and an injection malfunction diagnostic control which performs an injection malfunction diagnostic with any one or more among an injector opening angle, an injector operating time, and the number of injector operation times which are measured through the fuel injection of the injector.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cold start split injection control method, comprising:
performing, by a split injection controller, an injection mode control which performs a cold start split injection by an operation of an injector, wherein the split injection controller determines cold start conditions of an engine system; and
performing, by the split injection controller, an injection malfunction diagnostic control which performs an injection malfunction diagnostic with any one or more among an injector opening angle, an injector operating time, and the number of injector operation times measured using the fuel injection of the injector;
wherein the injection malfunction diagnostic control is performed by:
confirming a target injector opening angle, a target injector closing angle, a target injector operating time, and the number of target injector operation times;
determining a time verification of the injector operating time with a target injector operating time and the injector operating time;
determining an angle verification of the injector opening angle with the injector opening angle and the target injector opening angle; and
confirming the number of times of the number of injector operation times with the target number of the injector operation times and the number of injector operation times.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cold start conditions apply a coolant temperature and an engine revolution per minute (RPM), and wherein the cold start condition determination is performed based on the coolant temperature initially followed by the engine RPM.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the coolant temperature is applied as a determination condition by setting a setting coolant temperature to 56° C.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the engine RPM is applied as a determination condition by setting a setting engine RPM region to 700 to 960 revolutions per minute (RPM).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the injection mode control includes generating, as injection operation detection values, any one or more among the injector opening angle, an injector closing angle, the injector operating time, and the number of injector operation times by performing the cold start split injection.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the injection mode control is performed by:
determining operating current inflection points by detecting injector operating currents based on a fuel injection start;
measuring an injector opening time point and the injector opening angle;
determining operating voltage inflection points by detecting injector operating voltages based on the fuel injection start;
measuring an injector closing time point and an injector closing angle based on a fuel injection termination;
calculating the injector operating time; and
counting the number of injector operation times.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the injector operating time is calculated by the difference between the injector closing time point and the injector opening time point.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the injection mode control is performed by a first injection mode, a second injection mode, and a third injection mode in which the number of injector operation times is increased by a count of 1.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a time index estimation value, which is obtained by dividing a difference value of the target injector operating time and the injector operating time by the target injector operating time, and a time index threshold are applied to the determining of the time verification.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the time index threshold is 0.2.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the cold start split injection is determined as malfunction in response to determining that the time index estimation value is less than the time index threshold.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein an angle index estimation value, which is obtained by dividing a difference value of the target injector opening angle and the injector opening angle by the target injector opening angle, and an angle index threshold are applied to the determining of the angle verification.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the angle index threshold is 0.2.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the cold start split injection is determined as malfunction in response to determining that the angle index estimation value is less than the angle index threshold.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the confirming of the number of times includes applying the numerical identity between the target number of the injector operation times and the number of injector operation times, and the cold start split injection is determined as malfunction in response to determining that the numerical values are not the same.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the numerical identity is 3.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Koo Bon-Chang

Classifications

• F02D41/3094

  the fuel injection being effected by at least two different injectors, e.g. one in the intake manifold and one in the cylinder · CPC title

• F02D41/402 Primary

  Multiple injections · CPC title

• F02D2041/2055

  with means for determining actual opening or closing time · CPC title

• F02D41/401

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

• F02D2041/224

  Diagnosis of the fuel system · CPC title