Fuel injection control device for engine

• US 20090082937A1
• Filed: 03/07/2006
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hokuto, Hiroyuki, Masaki, Ritsuo
• Granted Patent: US 7,599,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/103
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0002 Controlling intake air
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/064 at cold start F02D41/067 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3029 further comprising a homogeneous charge spark-ignited mode
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/307 to avoid torque shocks
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3076 with special conditions for selecting a mode of combustion, e.g. for starting, for diagnosing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3094 the fuel injection being effected by at least two different injectors, e.g. one in the intake manifold and one in the cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 63/029 per cylinder bank, e.g. storing different fuels or fuels at different pressure levels per cylinder bank
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 69/046 for injecting into both the combustion chamber and the intake conduit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

A fuel injection control device for an engine including a cylinder injector and an air intake passage injector is provided. The device changes a fuel injection style, from a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed from a predetermined instant immediately after the beginning of the cold start of engine until a predetermined period has passed, to the combination of an air intake passage injection by the air intake passage injector, an intake stroke cylinder injection and a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed after the predetermined period has passed. During the cold start of engine, the favorable combustion stability is obtained by the compression stroke cylinder injection before the predetermined period has passed, and an amount of HC is reduced after the passage of the predetermined period, promoting warming-up of catalyst.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A fuel injection control device for an engine comprising a cylinder injector and an air intake passage injector, wherein means is provided for changing a fuel injection style, from a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed from a predetermined instant immediately after the beginning of the cold start of engine until a predetermined period has passed, to the combination of an air intake passage injection by the air intake passage injector, an intake stroke cylinder injection and a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed after the predetermined period has passed, and characterized in that an instant at which the predetermined period finishes is an instant at which the amount of intake air integrated from the beginning of the cold start of engine reaches a predetermined threshold, and in that the threshold is obtained based on a temperature of engine water at the beginning of the cold start of engine.

3. A fuel injection control device for an engine as defined by claim 2, wherein the threshold of the integrated amount of intake air is lower as the temperature of engine water at the beginning of the cold start of engine is higher.

4. (canceled)

5. A fuel injection control device for an engine comprising a cylinder injector and an air intake passage injector, wherein means is provided for changing a fuel injection style, from a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed from a predetermined instant immediately after the beginning of the cold start of engine until a predetermined period has passed, to the combination of an air intake passage injection by the air intake passage injector, an intake stroke cylinder injection and a compression stroke cylinder injection by the cylinder injector which is executed after the predetermined period has passed, and characterized in that an instant at which the predetermined period finishes is an instant at which the amount of injected fuel integrated from the beginning of the cold start of engine reaches a predetermined threshold, and in that the threshold is obtained based on a temperature of engine water at the beginning of the cold start of engine.

6. A fuel injection control device for an engine as defined by claim 5, wherein the threshold of the integrated amount of injected fuel is lower as the temperature of engine water at the beginning of the cold start of engine is higher.

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