Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenichiro Ishibashi

Katsunori Nakamura

Shigeru Aoki

Kazuhiro Ueda

Atsushi Kato

Toshiyuki Nishida

Ryuichi Noseyama

Yoshikazu Oshima

Masayuki Tamura

Shigeo Hidai

Mitsuru Ikeo

Kazuo Takeuchi

Akira Murakami

Eisaku Gosho

Fumihiro Yamaguchi

Nobuo Arai

Hajime Endo

Yoshikazu Ohshima

A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank having a resin liner. The fuel tank is constructed so as to withstand refueling of compressed gaseous fuel. Fuel filled in the fuel tank is supplied to the engine through a fuel supply passage. When the pressure within the fuel tank drops below a predetermined value, the supply of fuel to the engine is inhibited.

Fuel supply system for internal combustion engines

Supply of fuel is stopped when fuel pressure sensed by a pressure sensor provided upstream of a regulator is at a predetermined value or less to avoid abnormal combustion caused by improper adjustment of air/fuel ratio. Even slight variation of the fuel pressure is sensed by monitoring the fuel pressure in an interval after closing a fuel shut-off valve once opened to re-opening of it. In addition, an abnormal state in the fuel system is detected by comparing an accumulated value of amount of injected fuel and an estimated value of fuel consumption in the tank. Furthermore, the peak current value of the fuel injection valve is controlled so that, when the engine at a low temperature is started, lift load of the injection valve is larger than sticking force of the injection valve, thereby preventing such situation where the injection valve is frozen so that it cannot supply fuel to the engine. In this case, the engine can be smoothly started by simultaneously controlling the valve open time. Furthermore, the temperature of the regulator is properly maintained so that optimum function can be exhibited by controlling the flow rate of cooling water flowing through a water passage provided in the regulator for regulating the fuel gas pressure.

Gas fuel supply system for vehicle

A fuel supply mechanism for a gas combustion engine has a tank filled with a gas fuel, a fuel injector having a fuel injection valve mounted on the gas combustion engine, a pipe for supplying the gas fuel from the tank to the fuel injector, a gas fuel cutoff valve in the pipe for cutting off the gas fuel flowing through the pipe, a gas fuel state detector for detecting a state of the gas fuel, and a control unit responsive to a detected signal from the gas fuel state detector for controlling the gas fuel cutoff valve and the fuel injection valve.

Gas fuel supply mechanism for gas combustion engine

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Wako, Japan

Kenichiro Ishibashi