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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1977
Chigaku Murata, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A system for controlling or interrupting the fuel supply in an internal combustion engine operating under a braking condition, in response to the vacuum level in its intake system. This system is equipped with an air pump driven by an output shaft of the engine, and a pressure responsive valve including two chambers partitioned by a diaphragm, a valve body coupled to the diaphragm and a valve seat therefor. A discharge pressure from the air pump is applied to one of the chambers, and a vacuum from the intake system, downstream of a throttle valve in the carburetor, is applied to the other of the chambers. This pressure responsive valve readily discriminates between the engine braking condition and the idling condition of the engine, by widening the sensible or detecting range between the maximum possible vacuum level in an intake pipe, upon idling and the minimum possible vacuum level in the intake pipe, upon engine braking. When the system detects engine braking condition, the fuel supply is interrupted so as to suppress the generation of harmful constituents in the exhaust gases.