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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2013
International Engine Intellectual Property Company, Llc, Lisle, IL (US);
Nirav Atul Shah, Forest Park, IL (US);
Mark Brian Michelotti, Barrington, IL (US);
Sumeet Suresh Yerunkar, Lombard, IL (US);
International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
Injector drift for a diesel engine are detected by reconfiguration of injection patterns from one pattern into a pattern with a different number of pulse points while attempting to hold total fuel injected constant. If a particular injector is subject to drift then changes in the pulse pattern result in an increase or decrease in fuel injected and consequential variations in engine speed. By applying alternating injection patterns at constant fuel demand and allowing engine speed time to stabilize, a rhythmic variation in engine speed/torque will appear which can be detected using one of a number of techniques.