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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1999
Tomohiko Takahashi, Isehara, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus and method of controlling the fuel injection of a direct injection engine, switching is performed, in accordance with the driving condition, between homogeneous combustion, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve during the intake stroke and combusted, and stratified combustion, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve during the compression stroke and combusted, and the injection of fuel from the fuel injection valve is stopped under a predetermined deceleration condition. In the case that the condition in which the injection of the fuel from the fuel injection valve is stopped and the fuel injection is to be resumed by the stratified combustion, the resumption of the injection of fuel from the fuel injection valve is delayed by a predetermined amount of time.