Method and apparatus for fuel injection of engine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9624854-B2
Application number	US-201514797994-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2015
Priority date	Nov 17, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A method for fuel injection of an engine system may include detecting driving information, including a combustion pressure in a combustion chamber, a heat generation amount in the combustion chamber, a crank angle, and a pressure/temperature/air amount of an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold, setting a fuel amount and injection timing with respect to a pilot injection as map data from an internal temperature, determining whether a maximum combustion pressure change rate is greater than a predetermined pressure change rate, determining generation timing of the maximum combustion pressure change rate, when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is greater than the predetermined pressure change rate, and decreasing a fuel amount of the pilot injection when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is generated during the pilot injection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for fuel injection of an engine system, comprising:
detecting driving information, by a controller, including a combustion pressure in a combustion chamber, a heat generation amount in the combustion chamber, a crank angle, and a pressure/temperature/air amount of an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold;
setting a fuel amount, by the controller, and injection timing with respect to a pilot injection as map data from an internal temperature, wherein the internal temperature is modeled from the pressure/temperature/air amount of the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold, and an exhaust gas recirculation amount by a variable valve apparatus;
determining, by the controller, whether a maximum combustion pressure change rate is greater than a predetermined pressure change rate;
determining, by the controller, generation timing of the maximum combustion pressure change rate, when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is greater than the predetermined pressure change rate; and
decreasing a fuel amount of the pilot injection, by the controller, when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is generated during the pilot injection.

2. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, whether a combustion delay of main injection fuel is generated when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is less than the predetermined pressure change rate; and
determining, by the controller, a fuel amount and injection timing of the pilot injection according to a predetermined value of the map data when the combustion delay of the main injection fuel is not generated.

3. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 2 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, whether an independent heat generation by each pilot injection occurs when the combustion delay of the main injection fuel occurs; and
increasing, by the controller, an injection period of each pilot injection compared to a predetermined injection period of the map data when the independent heat generation by the each pilot injection does not occur.

4. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 3 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, whether an entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection satisfies a target heat generation amount when the independent heat generation by the each pilot injection occurs; and
increasing, by the controller, a fuel amount by the pilot injection to greater than a predetermined fuel amount of the map data when the entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection does not satisfy the target heat generation amount.

5. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 4 , further comprising
determining, by the controller, a fuel amount and injection timing of the pilot injection according to the map data when the entire heat generation amount of pilot injection satisfies the target heat generation amount.

6. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 4 , wherein
the entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection is determined from a mass fraction burned 10% (MFB10).

7. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 3 , wherein
a heat generation amount of an initial pilot injection is determined by summing heat generation amounts from a combustion start timing to a timing at which a differential value of a heat release rate initially becomes zero, and
the heat generation amount by the pilot injection after the initial pilot injection is determined by summing the heat generation amounts of each period at which the differential value of the heat release rate is zero.

8. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 3 , wherein the combustion delay of the main injection fuel is determined by using mass fraction burned 50% (MFB50).

9. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, whether an independent heat generation by each pilot injection occurs when the maximum combustion pressure change rate is generated during the main injection; and
increasing, by the controller, an injection period of the each pilot injection to be greater than a predetermined injection period of the map data when the independent heat generation by the each pilot injection does not occur.

10. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, whether the entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection satisfies the target heat generation amount when the independent heat generation by the each pilot injection occurs; and
increasing, by the controller, the fuel amount of the pilot injection to be greater than the predetermined fuel amount of the map data when the entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection does not satisfy the target heat generation amount.

11. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 10 , further comprising
determining, by the controller, the fuel amount and the injection timing of the pilot injection according to the predetermined value of the map data when the entire heat generation amount of the pilot injection satisfies the target heat generation amount.

12. The method for the fuel injection of the engine system of claim 1 , wherein
generation timing of the maximum combustion pressure change rate is determined from a crank angle at which the combustion pressure change rate is maximized.

13. An apparatus for fuel injection of an engine system, comprising:
an engine including a combustion chamber supplying a driving torque by combustion of fuel, an intake manifold, and an exhaust manifold;
at least one exhaust valve opening and closing the combustion chamber;
a variable valve apparatus adjusting an opening timing and a lift of the exhaust valve;
a driving information detector detecting driving information including a combustion pressure in the combustion chamber, a heat generation amount in the combustion chamber, a crank angle, and a pressure/temperature/air amount of the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold; and
a controller controlling a fuel amount and an injection timing of pilot injection by using a maximum combustion pressure change rate, generation timing of the maximum combustion pressure change rate, a combustion delay of fuel by main injection, and a combustion delay of fuel by the pilot injection,
wherein the controller is configured to be operated by a program set for performing the method of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Jangsu
• Cho Hyo Sang
• Kim Hyoung Hyoun

Classifications

• F02D41/024

  to increase temperature of the exhaust gas treating apparatus · CPC title

• F02D41/403

  with pilot injections · CPC title

• F02D41/006 Primary

  using internal EGR (control of valve overlap for internal EGR F02D13/0261; arrangements for internal EGR F02M26/01) · CPC title

• F02D35/023

  by determining the cylinder pressure · CPC title

• F02D41/30

  Controlling fuel injection {(F02D41/182, F02D41/24 take precedence)} · CPC title