Fuel injection device

• US 10,655,556 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2018
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Zama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nonaka, Takumi, Watanabe, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dallo, Joseph J
• Application Number:
  US16/162,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20190316541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/0404 Throttle position
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/101 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 29/06 peculiar to engines driving electric generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/30 Controlling fuel injection F02D41/182, F02D41/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3005 Details not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3082 Control of electrical fuel pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/345 Controlling injection timing F02D41/365 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/061 using electromagnetic operating means
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/0678 all portions having fuel passages, e.g. flats, grooves, diameter reductions
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/08 specially for low-pressure fuel-injection

Abstract

A fuel injection device comprising electricity-generating means generating electricity by rotation of an engine and outputting a predetermined signal, and a solenoid valve injecting fuel; the valve being opened as a result of a drive current applied to a coil, and the fuel being injected into an intake passage of the engine at a predetermined timing during the rotation of the engine; to ensure that the flow rate required during high-speed operation ca be adequately provided in a fuel injection device for injecting/supplying fuel to an engine. The electricity-generating means is an alternating current generation means attached to the engine in a crank angle position at which an output is generated in synchronization with the intake timing of the engine; the signal is an injection command signal applied to the solenoid valve as an alternating-current drive current; and the applied voltage increases with increased engine speed.

Claims

1. A method for injecting fuel comprising the steps of:

generating a predetermined signal as a function of the rotation of an engine with an alternating-current generator, and

injecting fuel from a solenoid valve into an intake passage of the engine at a predetermined timing during the rotation period of the engine in response to the predetermined signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined signal is an injection command signal comprising an alternating-current drive current.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of injecting fuel from the solenoid valve includes applying the drive current to a coil of the solenoid valve.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating the predetermined signal includes generating the predetermined signal in synchronization with an intake timing of the engine.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of applying the drive current to the coil includes applying the predetermined signal to the coil without modification.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the alternating-current generator having an electromotive coil at a predetermined position on the external periphery of a flywheel disposed on an engine shaft and provided with a magnet in an area along the edge.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the electromotive coil is disposed at a predetermined position along the external periphery of the flywheel in a crank angle position at which an output signal is generated in synchronization with the intake timing of the engine.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein an applied voltage increases with increased engine speed.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein per-cycle fuel injection rate increases with increased engine speed.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of adjusting the fuel flow rate through a fuel flow-rate adjustment valve in association with the operation of a throttle valve.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the fuel flow-rate adjustment valve is provided to a fuel passage that extends to one of the solenoid valve or a fuel passage that extends from the solenoid valve to the intake passage, wherein the intake passage is configured as a through passage having the throttle valve positioned therein.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of pumping fuel to the solenoid valve by the introduction of a pulsating motion from the engine.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the pressure of the fuel pumped to the solenoid valve increases as the engine speed increases.