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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2001
Brent Edward Sealy, Dearborn, MI (US);
Douglas Joseph Mancini, Farmington, MI (US);
Jeffrey Allen Doering, Canton, MI (US);
Marianne Lambert Vykydal, Onsted, MI (US);
Thomas Raymond Culbertson, Livonia, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and method for adjusting fuel vapor delivery from a fuel vapor recovery system in an internal combustion engine. An engine controller calculates a purge fuel fraction that is indicative of an amount of fuel vapor passing through the vapor recovery system relative to a total amount of purge flow, including air, passing through the vapor recovery system. A purge percent fuel parameter indicative of an amount of fuel vapor delivered to the engine from the fuel vapor recovery system relative to a total amount of fuel delivered to the engine is calculated based on the purge fuel fraction. Finally, the controller adjusts an amount of fuel vapor released from the vapor recovery system based on the purge percent fuel parameter.