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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1988
Richard Bauder, Neckarsulm, DE;
Audi AG, , DE;
Abstract
A diesel internal combustion engine 1 has an air intake 2, an injection pump 3 and an exhaust pipe 4. In the fuel injection line 7 is arranged an electromagnetic shut-off valve 8, which closes the fuel supply when the 'ignition' switch 10 is turned off, in order to bring the engine 1 to an immediate halt. In the exhaust pipe 4 is arranged a lambda lean probe 12, which feeds to a comparator electronics system 14 a signal corresponding to the oxygen content of the exhaust gas; this signal is compared in the comparator circuit with a lambda nominal value. If an excess quantity of fuel has been injected, for example, due to a fault in the injection system the value detected by the lambda probe 12 will fail to reach the nominal value, whereupon the comparator electronic system 14 activates a switch 15 in the control line 9 of the shut-off valve 8. The current supply to the shut-off valve 8 is interrupted and the fuel supply to the engine 1 is shut off. In this way unintentional acceleration of the engine as a result of faulty injection of an excess quantity of fuel, is prevented.