Hitachi, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Kiyomi Morita

Junji Miyake

Mineo Kashiwaya

Keiji Hatanaka

Kiyotoshi Sakuma

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Masahide Sakamoto

Katsunobu Kameta

Hiroshi Kamifuji

Takao Teranishi

Yoshikazu Aochi

Tadahiko Otani

Takeshi Takamaru

Seijl Oobayashi

Takeshi Kikuchi

Junji Kiyake

In a fuel supply control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having an A/F ratio feed-back control with a learning function, a difference between an A/F ratio detected by an oxygen sensor and the stoichiometric value is obtained and divided into an A/F ratio correction coefficient and an A/F ratio deviation coefficient in accordance with a predetermined gains ratio. The former coefficient is stored in an area of a correction map corresponding to an operational condition of the engine at that time and the latter coefficient is accumulated in an additional storage. Upon determination of an amount of fuel to be supplied, a former coefficient is read out from the map in response to the operational condition and added to the latter coefficient read out from the additional storage to form a correction value, which is used for correcting a preliminary fuel supply amount obtained in accordance with the operational condition to determine a final fuel supply amount. With this, a quick determination of the final fuel supply amount accordingto the operational condition of the engine can be performed.

Fuel supply control apparatus for an internal combustion engine

An electronically-controlled fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine including means including a computer for electronically controlling a fuel injection quantity of an engine, means for detecting a rotational speed of the engine and a throttle sensor having lower and higher opening regions for detecting an opening of a throttle valve is further provided with means for storing the ratio between the slopes of output voltage characteristic curves derived from the regions with respect to a throttle opening in a range where the ranges of throttle openings to be detected in the regions overlap, and means for correcting the output voltage generated from one of the regions by use of the ratio in a throttle opening range exceeding said overlapping range.

Electronically-controlled fuel injection system for internal combustion

An air fuel ratio control apparatus, performs fuel decrease compensation during deceleration with respect to an air fuel ratio upon detection of a returning operation of a throttle valve. To avoid variations in torque which detract from a smooth ride, fuel decrease compensation is prohibited under the conditions that the opening of the throttle valve is in a full opening region and the amount of return movement of the throttle valve per unit time is equal to or less than a preset valve.

Air fuel ratio control apparatus

An amount of fuel fed to an engine and determined by the rpm of the engine and a suction air flow rate is increased by a predetermined amount of fuel upon detection of acceleration. When the engine is suddenly accelerated from a low-speed operational region to enter a power zone, the above-mentioned predetermined amount of fuel is corrected based on the rpm of the engine and a quantity of change in the throttle valve opening degree.

Method and apparatus for fuel control

A fuel is injected based on the rpm of the engine and the suction air rate. The fuel injection amount is corrected depending on a map of fuel injection share correction coefficient prepared in advance and determined by data such as a throttle valve opening and the rpm of the engine so that amounts of fuel injected will be even at the respective cylinders. The fuel injection share correction coefficient is for correcting fuel deviation due to construction of suction passage to with the respective cylinders or for correcting fuel deviation due to arrangement of two injectors in one bore with respect to the throttle valve shaft.

Method of and apparatus for fuel control

An engine control system which controls ignition timing for, and fuel supply to, an engine by scanning a map by using as parameters a first item of data representing the number of revolutions of the engine and a second item of data representing engine load. The engine control system includes filter means for providing a third item of data by suppressing the rate of change of the second item of data. The third item of data is used in place of the second item of data for scanning the map only when the engine is in a predetermined range of operating conditions in which the rate of change of a manipulated variable of a throttle valve, the number of revolutions of the engine and the rate of change of the engine load are all less than respective predetermined values.

Engine control system

Disclosed is a fuel control apparatus in an internal combustion engine. When the running mode the engine is changed into acceleration again from deceleration after acceleration, the fuel becomes too rich if the conventional continuous correcting factor is used. In order to properly reduce the quantity of fuel supply in that case, the number of engine revolutions is counted from a point of initiation of deceleration to a point of initiation of acceleration again to thereby calculate a proper value of the continuous correcting factor corresponding to the count, so that fuel is supplied to the internal combustion engine with a quantity corrected by the thus calculated value of the continuous correcting factor.

Fuel control apparatus in internal combustion engine

An engine controlling system is operative to control injection of fuel into an engine and an ignition timing thereof in accordance with predetermined maps, respectively. Each map is at a lattice pattern showing predetermined relationship between engine speed and load value determined based on the engine speed and an engine intake air flow in terms of mass flow. When the degree of the throttle valve opening is greater than a predetermined value and the engine speed and the load value read on the maps do not fall in power zones in the maps, the engine controlling system operates to increase the fuel supply and retard the ignition timing so that the increased rate of fuel supply and the retarded ignition timing fall in the power zones in the maps to prevent occurrence of a knock.

Engine controlling system

Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling at the time of idling the rotational speed of an engine having an injector for injecting fuel in proportion to the width of an input pulse. The control apparatus includes: a rotational speed sensor for cyclically detecting the rotational speed of the engine; an airflow meter for cyclically detecting the quantity of air being sucked into the engine; an idle switch for detecting the complete closing of a throttle valve; a judging means for judging that the engine is in the idling condition on the basis of the output of the idle switch and the output of the rotational speed sensor; and an operating means for cyclically outputting the injector a fuel injection pulse having a pulse width obtained by the following expression on the basis of the output of the rotational speed sensor and the output of the airflow meter when the judging means has judged that the engine is in the idling condition.

Apparatus for controlling idling speed of motor vehicle engine

An electronically controlled fuel injection apparatus in which opening degree of a throttle valve or throttle aperture is sampled periodically at a predetermined time interval to detect change in the throttle aperture for determining deceleration. Upon every determination of the deceleration, a correcting quantity is accumulatively determined so that deceleration is corrected for compensating delay in the control of fuel injection in dependence on magnitude of change in the throttle aperture. An improved engine performance and optimum air-fuel ratio control can be accomplished.

Electronically controlled fuel injection apparatus for internal

An intake system for an internal combustion engine has a fuel injector disposed in an induction passage upstream of a pivotally mounted throttle plate having an idle position in which the throttle plate has upstream and downstream edge portions slightly spaced from the inner peripheral surface of the induction passage to define therewith narrow gaps for the passage of air and injected fuel particles. A bypass air passage is formed in the peripheral wall of the induction passage and has a downstream end open thereto to produce a jet of air directed toward the central zone of the downstream face of the throttle plate when in the idle position. The air jet is operative to compensate for the difference in pressure between a central space immediately downstream of the throttle plate and peripheral zones adjacent to the narrow gaps whereby whirling-up of air and fuel particles just downstream of the throttle plate and resultant formation of drops of liquid fuel can be prevented.

Intake system for internal combustion engine

A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for supplying an additional amount of fuel in addition to a basic amount of fuel when an acceleration condition is detected in accordance with a throttle opening change rate. The amount of additional fuel injection is increased in acceleration so as to prevent the fuel air mixture from being lean in acceleration.

Fuel injection control apparatus for internal combustion engine

An engine control method for an engine control system comprising a central processing unit for computing a value of duty factor for a by-pass valve in response to the respective outputs of a plurality of sensors for detecting operating conditions of the engine and a pulse generating circuit responsive to the output of the central processing unit for supplying the by-pass valve with a pulse signal representing the computed value of duty factor. The engine control method comprises a step of computing the duty factor for the by-pass valve on the basis of the outputs of the sensors in an idling operation of the engine, and a step of supplying the by-pass valve with a pulse signal representing a predetermined duty factor on the basis of the computed value of duty factor.

Engine control method

An air flow rate measuring device has a by-pass passage branched from a main air passage leading to an engine, and heat wires provided in the by-pass passage. The inlet of the by-pass passage is positioned at the upper end of a venturi tube disposed in the main air passage, shaped annularly, and opened to the main air passage so that the air at the inlet can be subjected to the dynamic pressure of the main air stream. The outlet of the by-pass passage also is annularly formed and opened normally to the main air stream in the main air passage. The flow rate of air sucked into the engine is measured by the heat wires subjected to air flow taken in the by-pass passage.

Air flow rate measuring device

In an acceleration pump of a carburetor for an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and a piston reciprocatorily inserted in the cylinder, the piston is formed in its upper portion with a transverse bore for a stopper member to extend therethrough to be urged by a heat sensitive element to move in a direction at right angles to the direction of reciprocatory movement of the piston, so that additional fuel for acceleration can be supplied to the engine in a quantity which is accurately corrected to accommodate itself to changes in ambient temperature, by means of the heat sensitive element. The transverse bore is formed at its top wall and bottom wall with projections, and the stopper member is formed at its upper surface and lower surface with depressed portions, so as to enable the lengths of the downward and upward strokes of the piston to be controlled in accordance with changes in ambient temperature. Thus the acceleration pump is capable of supplying to the engine additional fuel for acceleration in a quantity which is corrected to accommodate itself for changes in ambient temperature.

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Katsuta, Japan

Kiyomi Morita