Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisan Industry Co., Ltd.

Rio Shimizu

Tomojiro Sugimoto

Susumu Kojima

Makoto Nakagawa

Jun Yamada

Kiyoshi Nakanishi

Hiroshi Tanaka

Keiso Takeda

Yasuyuki Irisawa

Mutsumi Kanda

Masaki Ikeya

Koji Aso

Toshimi Kashiwagura

Fumiaki Hattori

Taiyo Kawai

Hideaki Kosuge

Kazuhiro Yonesige

Jin Tanaka

Masayuki Akita

A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine includes a heat exchanger that has a heat exchanging wall between a liquefied fuel passage and an engine coolant passage. Heated and vaporized fuel flowing out from the liquefied fuel passage of the heat exchanger is supplied to the internal combustion engine. A flow rate of liquefied fuel supplied to the liquefied fuel passage of the heat exchanger is set. A flow rate of engine coolant supplied to the engine coolant passage of the heat exchanger is determined on the basis of a temperature of the engine coolant supplied to the engine coolant passage of the heat exchanger such that nucleate boiling or transition boiling of the liquefied fuel in the set flow rate occurs near a boundary between nucleate boiling and transition boiling in the liquefied fuel passage.

Fuel supply system and fuel supply method for internal combustion engine

A fuel feed system which causes liquid fuel to evaporate so as to feed gaseous fuel, provided with an evaporator which includes a heater which heats the liquid fuel to vaporize it and an electric heater which adjusts the temperature of the heater. The heater has a heat conduction surface which supplies heat to the liquid fuel. A difference between the temperature of the heat conduction surface of the heater and the boiling point of the fuel at the evaporator is used as the basis to change the temperature of the heater and adjust the heat flux at the heat conduction surface.

Fuel feed system

A control system of an internal combustion engine in which as fuel, a first fuel of ammonia and a second fuel easier to burn than ammonia are used. These two types of fuel are burned in the combustion chamber. A basic ammonia ratio is set in accordance with an engine load and engine speed. The set basic ammonia ratio is corrected based on at least one of a combustion state, knocking strength, temperature of an exhaust gas or temperature of a catalyst arranged in an engine exhaust passage, NOconcentration in the exhaust gas, actual compression ratio, air-fuel ratio, and fuel properties.

Control system of internal combustion engine

A direct fuel injection, spark-ignition internal combustion engine wherein fuel mainly proceeds toward a spark plug side wall of a cavity along a bottom wall, is deflected by the spark plug side wall and is led to the vicinity of a spark plug. In the engine, the spark plug side wall of the cavity is provided with a deflecting portion inclined toward the inside of the cavity. A first part of the deflecting portion provided on both sides of the spark plug side wall functions to lead the fuel to the vicinity of the spark plug. A second part of the deflecting portion on the central portion of the spark plug side wall functions to lead the fuel to a region neighboring the side of the fuel injection valve from the vicinity of the spark plug.

Direct fuel injection-type spark-ignition internal combustion engine

A fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine includes an injector body and an adapter. The injector body includes a single fuel injection hole and the adapter includes a concave portion defining a dead volume portion and a pillar extending from a bottom surface of the concave portion toward the fuel injection hole formed in the injector body. Fuel injected through the fuel injection hole into the dead volume portion collides with a top surface of the pillar to form a cone-like fuel flow pattern and a large portion of the fuel can directly flow into injected fuel paths formed in the adapted without attaching to and collecting on surfaces of various portions of the adapter. Thus, stable fuel injection from the injected fuel paths can be obtained.

Fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine having a pillar

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