Fuel injection control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9347394-B2
Application number	US-201414226821-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2014
Priority date	Mar 29, 2013
Publication date	May 24, 2016
Grant date	May 24, 2016

Abstract

A fuel injection control system includes an engine speed detector, a throttle opening degree detector, a fuel injection device, a fuel injection controller, a fuel injection number determining device, and a fuel injection mode setting device. The engine speed detector is configured to detect an engine speed (NE). The throttle opening degree detector is configured to detect a throttle opening degree (TH). The fuel injection device is configured to inject fuel. The fuel injection controller is configured to calculate, based on an injection amount map, a fuel injection amount of the fuel to be injected from the fuel injection device and is configured to control the fuel injection device to inject the fuel according to the calculated fuel injection amount.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel injection control system comprising:
an engine speed detector configured to detect an engine speed (NE);
a throttle opening degree detector configured to detect a throttle opening degree (TH);
a fuel injection device configured to inject fuel;
a fuel injection controller configured to calculate, based on an injection amount map, a fuel injection amount of the fuel to be injected from the fuel injection device and configured to control the fuel injection device to inject the fuel according to the calculated fuel injection amount;
a fuel injection number determining device configured to determine based on the throttle opening degree (TH) detected by the throttle opening degree detector and the engine speed (NE) detected by the engine speed detector whether a frequency of fuel injections during one cycle of an engine is to be one or two, the one cycle of the engine having a predetermined number of divided injection stages including a first predetermined injection stage, a second predetermined injection stage after the first predetermined injection stage, and a third predetermined injection stage; and
a fuel injection mode setting device,
in a case where the frequency of fuel injections determined by the fuel injection number determining device is switched from one to two, which is configured to set an injection mode to a two-time fuel injection transition mode in which an injection timing is gradually advanced every predetermined number of cycles while the frequency of fuel injections is kept at one and which is configured to set the injection mode from the two-time fuel injection transition mode to a two-time fuel injection mode, when the injection timing is shifted to the first predetermined injection stage, in which the frequency of fuel injections is set to two so that the first injection timing is kept in the first predetermined injection stage and an additional injection timing is set in the second predetermined injection stage after the first predetermined injection stage, and
in a case where the frequency of fuel injections determined by the fuel injection number determining device is switched from two to one, the fuel injection mode setting device being configured to set the injection mode to a one-time fuel injection transition mode in which the frequency of fuel injections is set to one and the injection timing is gradually delayed from the first predetermined injection stage every predetermined number of cycles and the fuel injection mode setting device being configured to set the injection mode from the one-time fuel injection transition mode to a one-time fuel injection mode when the injection timing returns to the third predetermined injection stage; and

the fuel injection controller being configured to control the fuel injection device according to the fuel injection mode set by the fuel injection mode setting device.

2. The fuel injection control system according to claim 1 , wherein the injection amount map includes a two-time injection amount map used when the fuel injection is performed twice and a one-time injection amount map used when the fuel injection is performed once.

3. The fuel injection control system according to claim 2 , wherein the fuel injection controller calculates a first fuel injection amount (TIM2) for a first injection of the two-time fuel injection mode by multiplying a basic injection amount (TIMAP2) by an environment correction coefficient (K_TOTAL) and a predetermined injection ratio (RTI), the basic injection amount (TIMAP2) obtained from the two-time injection amount map based on the throttle opening degree (TH) detected by the throttle opening degree detector at the injection timing and the engine speed (NE) detected by the engine speed detector at the injection timing.

4. The fuel injection control system according to claim 3 , wherein the fuel injection controller calculates a second fuel injection amount (TIM3) for a second injection of the two-time fuel injection mode by subtracting the first fuel injection amount (TIM2) from a value obtained by multiplying the basic injection amount (TIMAP2) by the environment correction coefficient (K_TOTAL), the basic injection amount (TIMAP2) obtained from the two-time injection amount map based on the throttle opening degree (TH) detected by the throttle opening degree detector at the additional injection timing and the engine speed (NE) detected by the engine speed detector at the additional injection timing.

5. The fuel injection control system according to claim 2 , wherein the fuel injection controller calculates a third fuel injection amount (TIM1) for an injection of the one-time fuel injection mode, the two-time fuel injection transition mode, and the one-time fuel injection transition mode by multiplying a basic injection amount (TIMAP1) by an environment correction coefficient (K_TOTAL), the basic injection amount (TIMAP1) obtained from the one-time injection amount map based on the throttle opening degree (TH) detected by the throttle opening degree detector at the injection timing and the engine speed (NE) detected by the engine speed detector at the injection timing.

6. The fuel injection control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the predetermined number of cycles is one cycle,
the injection timing is advanced by one injection stage every cycle in the two-time fuel injection transition mode, and
the injection timing is delayed by one injection stage every cycle in the one-time fuel injection transition mode.

7. The fuel injection control system according to claim 1 , further comprising an engine starting device configured to determine a crank reference position by performing a simultaneous injection at start of the engine and then determine the injection stages by performing a fixed injection once, wherein
the fuel injection mode setting device sets the injection mode to the one-time fuel injection mode after the engine starting device determines the injection stages.

8. The fuel injection control system according to claim 7 , wherein, when the crank reference position becomes undeterminable after the simultaneous injection, the engine starting device performs the simultaneous injection and the fixed injection again to determine the injection stages.

9. The fuel injection control system according to claim 1 , wherein the second predetermined injection stage is after the third predetermined injection stage.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Uematsu Hideki
• Morita Masato

Classifications

• F02D41/402

  Multiple injections · CPC title

• F02D2250/21

  during a transition between engine operation modes or states · CPC title

• Y02T10/44

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F02D41/345

  Controlling injection timing (F02D41/365 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02D41/3064

  with special control during transition between modes · CPC title