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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2004
Tang-wei Kuo, Troy, MI (US);
Barry L. Brown, Lake Orion, MI (US);
Tang-Wei Kuo, Troy, MI (US);
Barry L. Brown, Lake Orion, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
Low load operating point for a controlled auto-ignition four-stroke internal combustion engine is reduced without compromising combustion stability through a valve control operative to establish sub-atmospheric pressure conditions within the combustion chamber into which fuel and exhaust gases are introduced. A split-injection control operative to introduce a first fuel fraction into the combustion chamber during an intake stroke and a second fuel fraction into the combustion chamber during a compression event, in combination with the valve control, provides further reductions in low load operating points without compromising combustion stability.