Nissan Motor Company Limited

Akihiro Iijima

Toshiaki Tanaka

Yukihiro Etoh

Nobukazu Kanesaki

Hiroaki Miyazaki

A first plunger pump serves to inject fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine during first periodical compression strokes as the crankshaft of the engine rotates. A second plunger pump serves to inject fuel into the combustion chamber during second periodical compression strokes as the crankshaft rotates. The maximum fuel injection quantity during each second compression stroke of the second plunger pump is smaller than that during each first compression stroke of the first plunger pump. A sensor detects load on the engine. A mechanism serves to advance the timing of the first compression strokes relative to that of the second compression strokes with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft as the detected engine load increases. The characteristic curve of the rate of the sum of the fuel injections effected by the first and second plunger pumps with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft can vary in accordance with the engine load.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Akihiro Iijima