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Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2019
Applicant:

GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);

Inventors:

Andrea Mollar, Turin, IT;

Stefano Nieddu, Turin, IT;

Paul Leondardo Claude, Turin, IT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/38 (2006.01); F02D 41/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/3872 (2013.01); F02D 41/22 (2013.01); F02D 2041/225 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a fuel injection system for a motor vehicle includes one or more of the following: operating a fuel injector to perform a fuel injection, the fuel injector being in fluid communication with a fuel rail; sampling a rail pressure in the fuel rail during the fuel injection; regulating the rail pressure at a desired injection pressure, P, to the fuel injector; measuring an overall leakage on variations of the rail pressure across an engine cycle for the motor vehicle and between two engine positions of an internal combustion engine for the motor vehicle; and restarting a new measurement cycle for a new pressure measurement target.


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