Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhito Hobo

Yutaka Suzuki

Osamu Ito

Yoshihiko Tsuzuki

Tetsuya Nakamura

Yoshimune Konishi

Masaharu Sumiyoshi

Satoshi Haseda

Makoto Shiozaki

Itsushi Kawamoto

Takashi Naitou

Akira Masuda

Takashi Hasegawa

Hiroshi Sami

Shizuo Kawai

Sumihiro Kaga

Masahiko Miyaki

Michio Iyoda

Mikio Kumano

Hironari Nukata

Kenro Sekino

Takashi Naito

Daisaku Sawada

Masaaki Noguchi

Taro Tanaka

Kenji Goto

Eiji Takemoto

Kazuo Shinoda

Jun Tarui

Hideaki Norimatsu

Tatehito Ueda

Takashi Shigematu

Yuji Takeda

Suguru Sato

Hiroshi Koide

Yukinori Miyata

Nizo Enomoto

Teruo Nishio

Takashi Hisegawa

Yoshihiko Huruya

Narutoshi Kameoka

An apparatus for controlling the timing of fuel injection into a diesel engine, including means for computing a target time at which injection should occur and means for sensing when injection actually occurs, with respect to a reference crankshaft position, feedback control means for adjusting the actual injection time to bring this into coincidence with the target injection time, means for sensing when firing of fuel within an engine cylinder actually occurs and for computing a target firing time based on the current operating status of the engine. A compensation factor is computed based on the difference between the actual and target firing times, and is utilized to modify the actual fuel injection time such as to bring the actual and target firing times into coincidence. Means are included for judging whether the engine operating status will permit reliable firing time data to be acquired, and for selectively enabling and inhibiting computation of successive new values of compensation factor based on this judgement.

Fuel injection timing control apparatus for a diesel engine, including a

Disclosed is a fuel injection quantity control system incorporated with a fuel injection pump with a solenoid-operated spill valve wherein a control signal is generated for cutting off a fuel supply to engine cylinders when a rotational phase angle of a drive shaft of the fuel injection pump is coincident with a desired spill phase angle determined in accordance with engine operating conditions. The desired spill phase angle, i.e., the opening timing of the spill valve is controlled in accordance with the rotational variations of the fuel injection pump. The desired spill phase angle is divided by unit angle corresponding to a detection period of rotational angle signals produced in accordance with the rotation of the pump drive shaft, obtaining a quotient and a remainder angle. The remainder angle is converted into a time on the basis of an engine speed. The generation of the control signal basically occurs upon the elapse of the converted time after the count of rotational angle signals is coincident with the quotient. If the engine operating condition varies immediately prior to the coincidence therebetween, the control signal is generated immediately after the coincidence or upon the elapse of a predetermined time period thereafter.

Method and apparatus for controlling fuel injection quantity into a

A fuel injection pump is described wherein a plunger is rotatingly and reciprocally movable in an enclosure to define a compression chamber which is connected to a fuel inlet during an intake stroke of the plunger and to a fuel outlet during a compression stroke thereby to initiate injection of fuel to the outlet. A solenoid valve is responsive to a voltage applied from a voltage source for providing a pressure relief action on the fuel in the compression chamber. A control unit is responsive to the onset of fuel injection to determine a basic timing at which fuel is to be terminated and corrects the basic timing as a function of the source voltage to compensate for a voltage variation thereof which would otherwise affect on the operation of the solenoid valve. The solenoid valve is then energized at the corrected timing.

Fuel injection pump having voltage variation compensation

A fuel injection arrangement for a diesel engine. An overflow passage for high pressure fuel is provided in the engine's fuel injection pump. A solenoid valve is disposed in the overflow passage for controlling the fuel injection amount through its on-off operation. The time when the fuel injection pump starts injecting fuel is detected by an injection start detector. To this injection starting time point is added a target injection period to determine an injection end time. At this injection end time the solenoid valve is opened to discontinue the fuel injection. The target injection period is determined according to operating conditions of the engine. Since this apparatus detects the actual injection start point and controls the injection period on the basis of the result of the detection, the fuel injection amount can be controlled extremely accurately.

Fuel injection control apparatus for diesel engines

In a diesel engine controlling system having a fuel injection pump, a fuel injection timing adjusting device is controlled by a drive pulse signal whose duty cycle is controlled by a microcomputer. The duty cycle is determined such that a basic duty cycle obtained by using engine rotational speed and injection quantity, is modified or corrected by way of a correction factor and a forecast correction factor. The-first mentioned correction factor comprises an integration component and a proportional component both derived from the difference between a measured fuel injection or ignition timing and a desired or reference fuel injection or ignition timing, which is calculated by using the engine rotational speed and the injection quantity. The forecast correction factor corresponds to a differential value of the basic duty cycle or the desired fuel injection or ignition timing. In order to detect the fuel injection or ignition timing a timing detector is employed, where the state of an output signal from the detector is monitored to prohibit calculation of the difference or error, thereby correcting the basic duty cycle by only the forecast correction factor when the detector is in abnormal condition.

Apparatus for controlling fuel injection timing

In a fuel injection system which electrically controls an amount of pressurized fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine, an electromagnetic valve which opens to inject the pressurized fuel is disposed at an upstream of a throttle valve in an intake pipe so that a group of cylinders of the engine is supplied with fuel therefrom. A pressure regulator is provided to regulate a pressure of the pressurized fuel in proportion to an intake pressure present at a downstream of the throttle valve.

Fuel injection system for internal combustion engines

Apparatus for providing information for an agricultural work machine comprising a distance detector which detects the distance travelled by an agricultural vehicle, a fuel consumption detector, which detects the amount of fuel consumed by the engine of the agricultural vehicle, a circuit for inputting the working width of the agricultural vehicle, an operating circuit for calculating fuel consumption rate indicative of the amount of fuel consumed per unit working area, and a display for displaying the calculated information. The fuel consumption detector may be replaced with a timer which detects the working time of the agricultural vehicle so that working efficiency may be obtained in place of the fuel consumption rate. The total area to be worked may be input in order to estimate the time of completion of the agricultural work or the fuel consumption rate at the time of completion of the work. Various function keys may be provided to selectively obtain necessary information among various kinds of information.

Apparatus for providing information for agricultural work machine

A fuel injection device for Diesel engines includes a combustion detector comprising a photoelectric transducer and a light path extended through a nozzle body to transmit the light of a combustion flame developed in an engine cylinder to the photoelectric transducer. One end of the light path is opened to an oil sump communicating with a nozzle opening so that only when the nozzle opening is opened for injecting fuel and then a combustion flame is developed, the light of the flame is passed through the light path and reaches the photoelectric transducer thereby generating an electric signal indicative of the actual time of the combustion. The whole or part of the light path may be comprised of optical fibers.

Fuel injection device for Diesel engines

The intake pressure and temperature of a Diesel engine equipped with a supercharger are sensed and the sensed intake pressure value is divided by the sensed intake temperature value to obtain an intake density. A value indicative of the intake density is divided by a value indicative of the air-excess ratio computed in accordance with the operating condition of the engine producing a smoke-limit injection amount. The smoke-limit injection amount is compared with the injection amount corresponding to a part-load condition of the engine and the smaller one of the values is applied to a linear solenoid for controlling the fuel injection amount adjusting member in the fuel injection pump of the engine.

Electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump

An electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump comprises a fuel flow sensor for detecting the net quantity of fuel supplied to the fuel injection pump, operating condition sensors for detecting operating condition parameters of an engine, a servo device for driving a fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump which controls the fuel injection quantity of the fuel injection pump, and an electric control circuit for receiving detection signals from the fuel flow sensor and the operating condition sensors, computing the actual fuel injection quantity and the desired fuel injection quantity, and determining an error between the computed actual fuel injection quantity and desired fuel injection quantity to drive the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump through the servo device in accordance with an error representing signal, thereby controlling the actual fuel injection quantity at the desired fuel injection quantity. By ensuring high detection accuracy of the fuel flow sensor, it is possible to accomplish high precision control of the fuel injection quantity without utilizing the position of a moving part of the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump.

Electric control apparatus for fuel injection pumps

An electrical governor for a fuel injection pump with a spill ring comprises an acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) detector, an engine rotational speed (N) detector, a spill ring displacement detector, a maximum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the engine rotational speed (N) and the maximum smoke concentration generating injection amount (Qmax), a partial load injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the partial load injection amount (Qpar) corresponding to the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) with the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) as a parameter, a minimum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the minimum limit injection amount (Qmin), a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the target injection amount (Qf) and the spill ring displacement target position (V.sub.SN), microcomputer means for reading out the values Qmin, Qpar and Qmax for the detected values PA and N and calculating the values Qf' and V.sub.SN ' corresponding to the detected values PA and N by interpolation, and actuator drive means for correcting the spill ring displacement in accordance with the calculated target position V.sub.SN ', thereby correcting the change in the fuel injection amount caused by the change in rotational speed. The governor alternatively includes a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the values PA, N and V.sub.SN for a corresponding value Qf.

Electrical fuel injection pump governor

An optimum control method for internal combustion engines uses the values of an engine control variable, such as engine timing, which are arranged in a map and stored in a memory. During normal operation, the engine is operated in accordance with one of the mapped engine control variable values related to engine operating conditions. During a fuel consumption minimization operation, the mapped engine control variable value is changed by an incremented amount to operate the engine therewith, and the mapped engine control variable value is replaced by the changed engine control variable value, if it is detected that the change by the incremented amount is in a direction to reduce the fuel consumption rate of the engine. This optimum engine control method can compensate for changes in the characteristics of engines caused during the manufacture or caused by changes over time during their operation, thereby ensuring the operation of an engine at a minimum rate of fuel consumption.

Method of reducing fuel consumption rate in internal combustion engines

An apparatus for controlling angular position of optical axis of a head lamp assembly for a motor vehicle. An actuator is supplied selectively with the atmospheric pressure and a negative pressure available from an intake conduit of an internal combustion engine thereby to produce corresponding mechanical displacements. A detector for detecting the angular position of the optical axis of the head lamp assembly responds to the mechanical displacements of the actuator to change-over successively the contact states of a plurality of paired electric contacts. A command unit for setting the angular position of the optical axis of the head lamp assembly is provided which includes a plurality of paired electric contacts connected in one-to-one correspondence to the paired contacts of the optical axis position detector. A signal for setting the optical axis of the head lamp assembly is produced in dependence on the contact states of the optical axis position detector.

Apparatus for controlling light projection angle of head lamp of motor

A knocking detector for an internal combustion engine includes a vibration unit comprising an inertial mass member and springs which are mounted in a housing attached to an engine body. The spring constants of the springs are so selected that the resonant frequency of the vibration unit becomes substantilly equal to the frequency of vibration due to knocking of the engine, and the vibration of the vibration unit is detected and converted into an electric signal.

Piezoelectric knocking detector for internal combustion engine

An injection pump control system comprises a plurality of pressure feed mechanisms each thereof including inner cams, pump plungers, etc., and provided in a rotor, a separate fuel inlet passage provided for each pressure feed mechanism, an electromagnetic valve provided for each fuel inlet passage to open and close the same, an electric control circuit for making the number of open-close operations of each electromagnetic valve equal to the number of operations of each pressure feed mechanism and for controlling the duration of opening of the electromagnetic valves in accordance with the operating conditions of an engine.

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Inuyama, Japan

Nobuhito Hobo