Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9810172-B2
Application number	US-201114363167-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2011
Priority date	Dec 8, 2011
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

An objective of the present invention is to stabilize the fuel injection amount for each cylinder and to execute fuel injection control accurately in a single-pressure-feed dual-injection type alcohol fuel injection system. An engine includes two injection valves and and a single-pressure-feed dual-injection type fuel supply system. The fuel supply system is configured such that fuel is injected sequentially in two cylinders during the pressure-feed-interval period from the execution of one fuel pressure-feed operation to the execution of the next fuel pressure-feed operation. If the alcohol concentration in the fuel is higher than a predetermined determination value γ at a startup operation time, an ECU executes only a cylinder injection for the first of the two cylinders described above, and executes both an intake passage injection and a cylinder injection for the second cylinder. Thus, even if the fuel pressure decreases due to the fuel injection for the first cylinder, the required fuel injection amount can be reserved for the second cylinder.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
an intake passage injection valve provided in each of cylinders of the internal combustion engine for injecting fuel into an intake passage;
a cylinder injection valve provided in each of the cylinders for injecting fuel into an inside of the cylinder;
a fuel supply system configured to pump and pressure-feed fuel to each of the cylinders, and the fuel supply system configured to sequentially inject the fuel into two cylinders during a pressure-feed-interval period, the pressure-feed-interval period being a period from a time one fuel pressure-feed operation is performed to a time a next fuel pressure-feed operation is performed;
an alcohol concentration detector that detects an alcohol concentration in the fuel;
a controller configured to execute a first injection control during the pressure-feed-interval period for injecting fuel from only the cylinder injection valve into a first cylinder and a second cylinder, which are two cylinders for which fuel injection is sequentially performed during the pressure-feed-interval period, when the alcohol concentration in the fuel is equal to or lower than a predetermined determination value; and
the controller configured to execute a second injection control during the pressure-feed-interval period for injecting fuel from the cylinder injection valve into the first cylinder and for injecting fuel from both the intake passage injection valve and the cylinder injection valve into the second cylinder when the alcohol concentration in the fuel is higher than the determination value.

2. The control device according to claim 1 wherein
the controller is configured to execute the first injection control and the second injection control only at a time of a startup operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and,
the controller configured to execute distributed injection control, instead of the first injection control and the second injection control after the startup operation is ended, the distributed injection control is a control to variably set a fuel injection ratio between the intake passage injection valve and the cylinder injection valve in the first cylinder and the second cylinder respectively according to an operation state of the internal combustion engine.

3. The control device according to claim 2 wherein
the controller is configured to add a fuel adhesion amount to a fuel injection amount of the intake passage injection valve in the second cylinder when the second injection control is performed, the fuel adhesion amount being an amount of fuel adhered to a wall surface of the intake passage, and
the controller is configured to set the fuel injection amount of the intake passage injection valve in the second cylinder to an amount smaller than a fuel injection amount of the first cylinder by the fuel adhesion amount when the distributed injection control is performed after the second injection control is performed.

Assignees

• Mitani Shinichi
• Murase Eiji
• Tsukagoshi Takahiro
• Matsuda Kazuhisa
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mitani Shinichi
• Murase Eiji
• Tsukagoshi Takahiro
• Matsuda Kazuhisa

Classifications

• F02D19/0692

  Arrangement of multiple injectors per combustion chamber · CPC title

• F02D41/008 Primary

  Controlling each cylinder individually · CPC title

• F02D41/30 Primary

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

• F02D19/061

  by controlling fuel injectors · CPC title

• F02D2200/0611

  Fuel type, fuel composition or fuel quality · CPC title