Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Hideo Miyagi

Jiro Nakano

Masaomi Nagase

Hironobu Ono

Yoshiyasu Ito

Fumiaki Kobayashi

Toshio Suematsu

Keiso Takeda

Shunzo Yamaguchi

Yasuhiko Ishida

Shin Adachi

Fumiaki Ohya

Koji Fukushima

Masumi Kinugawa

Mamoru Kobashi

Takao Akatsuka

Kiyohiko Oishi

Takahide Kawamura

Kiyotaka Matsuno

Toshihisa Ogawa

Masashi Kida

Masaaki Kurii

Masakuni Tsujimura

Eturou Katahira

Akihiko Kido

Nobuyuki Inoue

Matsujyu Yoshida

Mamoru Kohashi

An internal combustion engine is provided with a mechanically operated supercharger in kinematic connection with a crankshaft the engine. The engine is provided with a system for controlling the effect of supercharger, such as a by-pass control valve. A timer is provided for detecting a predetermined short period after the engine is switched to an acceleration condition from the preceding deceleration condition with a fuel-cut, or after a moderate acceleration has begun. The system for controlling the effect of the supercharging is so controlled that the effect of supercharging is weakened during that period.

System for controlling intake pressure in a supercharged internal

An internal combustion engine provided with a mechanically operated supercharger in kinematic connection with a crankshaft the engine. The engine is provided with a system for controlling the effect of supercharging, such as a by-pass control valve. A timer is provided for detecting a predetermined short period after the engine is switched to an acceleration condition from the preceding deceleration condition with a fuel-cut, or after a moderate acceleration has begun. The system for controlling the effect of the supercharging is so controlled that the effect of supercharging is weakened during that period.

Electric current supply to an actuator is ON-OFF controlled in such a manner that fuel supply quantity is made to be zero on condition that an engine rotation speed reaches a rotation speed less than a predetermined one in a low rotation region and a starter switch is turned OFF, whereby overrun of an engine and reckless run of a vehicle are prevented when a rotation sensor is in an abnormal condition.

Method of controlling diesel engine

A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes a housing and a plunger which slides in a bore in the housing, with a high pressure chamber defined at an end of the plunger. The plunger rotates with the crankshaft and reciprocates so as to pump fuel from the high pressure chamber to the engine cylinders, under the control of an electromagnetic valve. This valve includes a pilot valve which selectively vents the high pressure chamber, which is operated to open and close by selective supply of electrical energy thereto, and a balance member which is driven by a fluid force arising when the pilot valve is thus opened and a relatively small flow of fuel is released from the high pressure chamber, and which when so driven releases a relatively large flow of fuel from the high pressure chamber. Thereby the response of the electromagnetic valve as a whole is made quick, so that it is possible to inject a pilot fuel injection spirt before the main spirt of fuel injection, thus slowing down the combustion speed when the engine is functioning under low load conditions, and thereby providing smooth and gradual combustion, thus preventing diesel knocking. Optionally, the pump may include a means for, after said electromagnetic valve has been actuated by supply of electric current in a particular direction, supplying electric current in the direction opposite to said particular direction thereto, so as to avoid problems caused by magnetization effects of the solenoid core.

Diesel fuel injection pump with electromagnetic fuel spilling valve

In a fuel injection system incorporating a distribution type fuel injection pump, wherein the amount of fuel in each fuel injection is controlled by the time duration from the stoppage to the resumption of the venting or spilling of the pumping chamber, the time duration is electronically calculated according to engine rotational speed and accelerator pedal opening amount as a rotational angle of the crankshaft. The value of the rotational angle is divided by a unit rotational angle of the crankshaft, as detected by a signal pickup from a signal rotor which rotates with an input shaft of the pump to obtain a quotient of an integer and a fractional remainder, and the rotational angle is measured by first counting the number of times that the crankshaft rotates through successive unit rotational angles equal to the integer of the quotient and, secondly, by adding a time equal to the product of the fractional remainder and a unit time which is equal to the time for the crankshaft to rotate through the unit rotational angle at the current engine rotational speed.

Diesel fuel injection pump with signal rotor giving reference position

In a diesel engine having a rotational angle sensor for detecting the engine speed, when the rotational angle sensor is in an abnormal state, a fuel-cutting operation is performed. A first fuel-cutting operation is immediately performed so as to indicate to the driver that an abnormal state exists. However, subsequent fuel-cutting operations after restarting of the engine are delayed as compared with the first fuel-cutting operation.

Method and apparatus for controlling fuel-injection amount in diesel

A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes an input shaft rotated with the crankshaft, and a housing and a plunger which slides in a bore formed in the housing and is coaxial with the input shaft, with a high pressure chamber being defined at an end of the plunger between it and the bore. The plunger rotates with the input shaft and reciprocates so as to pump fuel at high pressure from the high pressure chamber to the engine cylinders, under the control of an electrically actuated electromagnetic valve, comprising a solenoid coil, which selectively vents the high pressure chamber according to the control of a control means, so as to provide fuel injection in appropriate amount to the diesel engine. There is provided a means for determining whether or not the voltage across the solenoid coil of the electromagnetic valve, when supply of power thereto changes from the ON to the OFF condition, rises higher than a certain value, or not. If a determining means detects that this voltage across the solenoid coil has not so risen, this lack of high transient voltage spike indicating that the solenoid coil may be discontinuous or functioning abnormally, then the engine is restrained. This restraint may consist of interrupting fuel flow to the engine to totally stop it, or of restricting air intake to the engine so as to put a ceiling on its rotational speed.

Diesel fuel injection pump with fuel injection cutoff upon detection of

A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes a means for calculating a proper fuel injection amount per each engine stroke and a means for injecting an amount of fuel per each engine stroke approximately equal to this proper fuel injection amount determined by this injection amount calculating means. The pump also includes a means for calculating a reference combustion time which represents approximately how long combustion in an engine stroke should last, and a means for detecting the approximate start and end of combustion in that engine stroke. From this information, these, an appropriate means calculates the approximate actual time of combustion in that engine stroke, and then another means compares the thus calculated approximate actual combustion time and the thus calculated reference combustion time, and based upon the result of said comparison selectively actuates a means for cutting off fuel injection, so as to stop the diesel engine from running and so as thereby to prevent overrunning due to abnormal combustion, if it decides as a result of the comparison that the actual combustion time is too long as compared with the reference combustion time. Optionally, this comparison may consider whether or not the calculated approximate actual combustion time has been greater than the calculated reference combustion time for a specified number of consecutive combustion cycles, and may interrupt engine running if such has been the case.

Diesel fuel injection pump fuel injection cutoff upon detection of

In a controlling device wherein operating conditions in the respective parts of a Diesel engine are detected by means of sensors, injection timing of fuel is calculated from the results detected, and at the same time a control valve provided in an oil pressure circuit for controlling the timing is controlled by means of electronic control in such that an actual injection timing of fuel obtained by a timer position sensor provided on a fuel injection pump comes to be close to the injection timing calculated, a vehicle which can attain whose minimum traveling by such a way that any abnormality in the timer position sensor is decided in response to a magnitude of output signals from the timer position sensor, at the same time, any trouble or accident of a timer oil pressure circuit is decided on the basis of a difference between the calculated injection timing and the actual injection timing, and the fuel is injected after either decreasing a prescribed quantity from a target quantity of injection obtained by calculation, or decreasing a prescribed quantity from the maximum injection quantity Q.sub.FULL at the time of these decisions.

Controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in diesel engine

An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders in which at each of different load conditions determined by the operating conditions of the engine the ignition timing for each cylinder is periodically retarded to cause a nonknocking ignition and the resulting background vibration levels detected by a knock sensor are stored in a memory. During the normal operation, the vibration level detected by the knock sensor with respect to each cylinder is compared with the corresponding background vibration level stored under the same load condition to detect the presence of knocking and thereby to determine the proper ignition timing.

Ignition timing control system

The ignition timing of an internal combustion engine is controlled to a fixed value during starting or for a period just after starting. However, if the engine is in a high-speed operating condition, the above control for fixing the ignition timing is interrupted and the ignition timing is controlled to change depending upon the change of the operating conditions of the engine.

Method of and apparatus for controlling the ignition timing of an

Energizing interval of an ignition coil, which is basically determined on the basis of the rotational speed of an engine, is corrected by adding thereto an extension amount which is either a function of the rotational speed of the engine or a given upper limit value at the rotational speed of the engine when accelerating condition is detected. Thus, the ignition coil is supplied with a primary winding current for a desired interval even during acceleration so that sufficient ignition voltage will be produced to properly ignite air/fuel mixture in engine cylinders. The extended energizing interval is then reduced stepwise to provide normal energizing interval during engine operations other than acceleration.

Method and apparatus for controlling energizing interval of ignition

Additional increment of the fuel feeding rate of an internal combustion engine during starting and for a period of time after starting is determined depending upon the warm-up condition of the engine and furthermore upon the rotational speed of the engine. The higher the rotational speed, the smaller the additional increment, and vice versa.

Method of and apparatus for controlling the fuel feeding rate of an

The cross-sectional area of a bypass passage around a throttle valve in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine is additionally increased by a predetermined value only when the throttle valve changes from an open position to the fully closed position during a heavy load condition or during a transitional condition from the heavy load condition to a light load condition. Therefore, the flow rate of the intake air at deceleration is not additionally increased during a light load condition, since that would cause the operation of the engine to be stable during deceleration.

Bypass air intake control for an internal combustion engine

The ignition timing of an internal combustion engine is set to a fixed value if a predetermined signal is applied to a predetermined input terminal for servicing the ignition timing. However, if the engine is not in the idling condition, the ignition timing is controlled, as usual, depending upon the operating condition of the engine, even when the predetermined signal is applied to the service input terminal.

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Hideo Miyagi