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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
Hideaki Kosuge, Okazaki, JP;
Susumu Kojima, Susono, JP;
Rio Shimizu, Mishima, JP;
Tomojiro Sugimoto, Susono, JP;
Masayuki Akita, Ama, JP;
Jin Tanaka, Kariya, JP;
Makoto Nakagawa, Obu, JP;
Masaki Ikeya, Obu, JP;
Hideaki Kosuge, Okazaki, JP;
Susumu Kojima, Susono, JP;
Rio Shimizu, Mishima, JP;
Tomojiro Sugimoto, Susono, JP;
Masayuki Akita, Ama, JP;
Jin Tanaka, Kariya, JP;
Makoto Nakagawa, Obu, JP;
Masaki Ikeya, Obu, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
NIPPON SOKEN, INC., Aichi, JP;
AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Obu-shi, JP;
Abstract
A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine includes a heat exchanger that has a heat exchanging wall between a liquefied fuel passage and an engine coolant passage. Heated and vaporized fuel flowing out from the liquefied fuel passage of the heat exchanger is supplied to the internal combustion engine. A flow rate of liquefied fuel supplied to the liquefied fuel passage of the heat exchanger is set. A flow rate of engine coolant supplied to the engine coolant passage of the heat exchanger is determined on the basis of a temperature of the engine coolant supplied to the engine coolant passage of the heat exchanger such that nucleate boiling or transition boiling of the liquefied fuel in the set flow rate occurs near a boundary between nucleate boiling and transition boiling in the liquefied fuel passage.