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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2007
Mert Geveci, Columbus, IN (US);
Richard Reisinger, Columbus, IN (US);
Michael Robert Tidwell, Bloomington, IN (US);
Andrew Osburn, Nashville, IN (US);
Mert Geveci, Columbus, IN (US);
Richard Reisinger, Columbus, IN (US);
Michael Robert Tidwell, Bloomington, IN (US);
Andrew Osburn, Nashville, IN (US);
Cummins, Inc., Columbus, IN (US);
Abstract
A fuel system has a source of fuel coupled to a plurality of fuel injectors via a fuel rail. The system is operable to determining a critical on-time for a selected one of the injectors by disabling fuel flow from the source of fuel to the fuel rail, periodically sampling fuel rail pressure, activating the selected injector for an on-time duration while inhibiting injection by remaining ones of the injectors, determining from the fuel rail pressure samples a pressure drop resulting from activation of the selected injector for the on-time duration, processing the pressure drop to determine whether or not the selected injector injected fuel, and repeatedly modifying the on-time duration followed by executing the sampling, activating, determining and processing steps until a critical on-time is determined that corresponds to a minimum on-time duration to which the selected fuel injector is responsive to inject a discernable amount of fuel.