Diesel engine, diesel engine manufacturing method, and diesel engine injection-amount correction system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024254940-A1
Application number	US-202218565224-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 21, 2022
Priority date	Aug 27, 2021
Publication date	Aug 1, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A diesel engine 30 includes an injector 4 that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device 2 that controls the driving by the injector 4 . The injector control device 2 includes a charge voltage control circuit 22 , a storage unit 25 that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector 4 , and an injector control circuit 24 that controls the driving by the injector 4 on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit 22 and the correction value stored in the storage unit 25 . The correction value is set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device 2 connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device 2.

First claim

1 . A diesel engine comprising:
an injector that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel; and an injector control device that controls the driving by the injector, the injector control device including: a charge voltage control circuit that stores an electric energy in a capacitor on the basis of a voltage supplied from a battery; a storage unit that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector; and an injector control circuit that controls the driving by the injector on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit and the correction value stored in the storage unit, the correction value being set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device.

2 . The diesel engine according to claim 1 , wherein the injector control circuit controls the driving by the injector on the basis of the correction value when the injection amount is not more than a predetermined amount.

3 . The diesel engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the voltage applied to the terminal is measured by a voltage measurement device in a production process, and the correction value is set according to the voltage measured by the voltage measurement device and stored in the storage unit in the production process.

4 . The diesel engine according to claim 1 , wherein the current flows in the load as a result of inputting of a pulse signal corresponding to a rotation number of not more than an idling rotation number to the injector control device.

5 . The diesel engine according to claim 1 , wherein the load is an injector dummy load having a coil and a resistor and simulating the injector.

6 . A diesel engine manufacturing method, which is a method of manufacturing a diesel engine including an injector that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device that controls the driving by the injector, the diesel engine manufacturing method comprising:
a signal inputting step of inputting a control signal to the injector control device; a voltage measurement step of measuring a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device due to the signal inputting step; a correction value setting step of setting a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector according to the voltage measured by the voltage measurement step; and a correction value writing step of causing a storage unit of the injector control device to store the correction value set by the correction value setting step.

7 . The diesel engine manufacturing method according to claim 6 , wherein the signal inputting step, the voltage measurement step, the correction value setting step, and the correction value writing step are performed in a production process of the diesel engine.

8 . The diesel engine manufacturing method according to claim 6 , wherein the control signal is a pulse signal corresponding to a rotation number of not more than an idling rotation number of the diesel engine.

9 . The diesel engine manufacturing method according to claim 6 , wherein the load is an injector dummy load having a coil and a resistor and simulating the injector.

10 . A diesel engine injection-amount correction system comprising:
an injector control device that controls driving by an injector that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel; a control signal generation device that generates a control signal which controls the injector control device and inputs the control signal to the injector control device; a load connected to the injector control device; a voltage measurement device that measures a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device connected to the load when a current starts to flow in the load due to the control signal; a correction value setting device that sets a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector according to the voltage measured by the voltage measurement device; and a correction value writing device that causes a storage unit of the injector control device to store the correction value set by the correction value setting device.

11 . The diesel engine injection-amount correction system according to claim 10 , wherein
the control signal generation device inputs the control signal to the injector control device in a production process of a diesel engine in which the injector is to be mounted, the voltage measurement device measures the voltage applied to the terminal of the injector control device in the production process of the diesel engine, the correction value setting device sets the correction value in the production process of the diesel engine, and the correction value writing device stores the correction value in the storage unit in the production process of the diesel engine.

12 . The diesel engine injection-amount correction system according to claim 11 , wherein the control signal is a pulse signal corresponding to a rotation number of not more than an idling rotation number of the diesel engine.

13 . The diesel engine injection-amount correction system according to claim 10 , wherein the load is an injector dummy load having a coil and a resistor and simulating the injector.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Kobayashi Yasushi
• Oso Hiroki
• Suehiro Kiichi
• Tagashira Yuki
• Nakakita Koji

Classifications

• F02D41/247

  Behaviour for small quantities · CPC title

• F02D41/2435

  characterised by the writing medium, e.g. bar code · CPC title

• F02D2041/2051

  using voltage control · CPC title

• F02D2041/2058

  using information of the actual current value · CPC title

• F02D41/2467

  for injectors · CPC title