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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2005
Mitsuhiro Nomura, Toyota, JP;
Mitsuhiro Nomura, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An engine ECU performs a program including the steps of calculating an amount of the fuel required to be discharged from high-pressure fuel pumps (the required discharge amount), determining whether one high-pressure fuel pump can be stopped, and if not, determining whether the required discharge amount exceeds a maximum possible discharge amount of one high-pressure fuel pump of smaller capability, and if not, causing the two high-pressure fuel pumps to discharge the fuel in approximately equal amount, or if so, causing the high-pressure fuel pump of smaller capability to discharge the fuel of the maximum possible discharge amount and causing the high-pressure fuel pump of larger capability to discharge the fuel of the amount obtained by subtracting the discharge amount of the high-pressure fuel pump of smaller capability from the required discharge amount.