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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2020
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Toshihiro Aono, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Mukaihara, Hitachinaka, JP;
Kenichiro Tokuo, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hirotaka Nakai, Hitachinaka, JP;
Kotaro Oki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Shunsuke Aritomi, Tokyo, JP;
Akiyasu Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
Low noise control of a high-pressure fuel pump is performed by reducing noise generated by an anchor colliding with a fixing core. A control devicefor a high-pressure fuel pump controls a suction valve that opens and closes an inflow port through which fuel flows to a pressurizing chamber by performing energization to a solenoidin synchronization with a reciprocating motion of a plunger. A current energized to the solenoidincludes a peak current for giving a force to start closing a valve to the suction valve in a stationary state and a holding current for performing switching in a range smaller a maximum value of the peak current in order to hold the suction valve in a valve closing state. When the control devicereduces a peak current application amount of the peak current from a value sufficient to close the high-pressure fuel pump, a valve closing speed of the suction valve becomes small up to a certain application amount, and when the peak current application amount becomes smaller than the application amount, there is a saturation range of a current application amount of the peak current in which the valve closing speed of the suction valve is saturated. The control devicecontrols the current application amount of the peak current to fall in the saturation range.