Control Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engine

• US 20110100333A1
• Filed: 08/13/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: TOYOHARA, Masahiro, Ishii, Yoshikazu, Ohisa, Tomohiro, Okamoto, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,280,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 123/490
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2003 using means for creating a boost voltage, i.e. generation or use of a voltage higher than the battery voltage, e.g. to speed up injector opening
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2017 using means for creating a boost current or using reference switching
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/0602 Fuel pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/20 Output circuits, e.g. for controlling currents in command coils
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/40 with means for controlling injection timing or duration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine which can inject a fuel injection quantity to a fuel injector with accuracy even when the fuel injection quantity is reduced than before is provided. A fuel injection control apparatus of a direct cylinder injection type of internal combustion engine, including a fuel injector which performs fuel injection by supplying a drive current to a solenoid, a fuel pressure sensor which detects fuel pressure supplied to the fuel injector, and operation state detecting means which detects the operation state of the internal combustion engine, comprises current profile changing means 100 which has multiple current profiles of the drive current and changes current profiles based on the operation state and the fuel pressure, valid pulse width calculating means 701 which calculates a valid pulse width for opening and driving the fuel injector, invalid pulse width calculating means 103 which calculates an invalid pulse width, and fuel injector control means which calculates a fuel injection pulse width based on the valid pulse width and the invalid pulse width, and controls the fuel injector based on the fuel injection pulse width, wherein the invalid pulse width calculating means 103 calculates an invalid pulse width corresponding to the current profiles to be changed before the current profiles are changed.

Claims

1. A fuel injection control apparatus for injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, comprising a fuel injector which performs fuel injection by supplying a drive current to a solenoid, a fuel pressure sensor which detects fuel pressure supplied to the fuel injector, and operation state detecting means which detects an operation state of the internal combustion engine, the fuel injection control apparatus for the internal combustion engine, comprising:

current profile changing means which has multiple current profiles of the drive current and changes the current profiles based on the operation state and the fuel pressure;

valid pulse width calculating means which calculates a valid pulse width corresponding to a fuel injection quantity for opening and driving the fuel injector, based on the operation state and the fuel pressure;

invalid pulse width calculating means which calculates an invalid pulse width corresponding to valve opening delay and valve closing delay of the fuel injector, based on the fuel pressure; and

fuel injector control means which calculates a fuel injection pulse width based on the valid pulse width and the invalid pulse width, and controls the fuel injector based on the fuel injection pulse width,

wherein the invalid pulse width calculating means calculates an invalid pulse width corresponding to the current profiles to be changed before the current profiles are changed.

2. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein

the invalid pulse width calculating means calculates an invalid pulse width corresponding to the multiple current profiles, and

the fuel injector control means selects an invalid pulse width corresponding to changed current profiles in accordance with the change in the current profiles, and performs control of the fuel injector based on the selected invalid pulse width.

3. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein

the invalid pulse width calculating means calculates an invalid pulse width corresponding to the current profiles before being changed, and an invalid pulse width corresponding to the current profiles after being changed, and

the fuel injector control means performs control of the fuel injector in accordance with the change of the current profiles and based on the invalid pulse width corresponding to the current profiles after being changed.

4. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the current profile changing means performs changing of the current profiles, synchronous with end of fuel injection of the fuel injector.

5. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the current profile changing means performs changing of the current profiles in a period after the fuel injector ends fuel injection till it starts next fuel injection.

6. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 5, wherein the current profile changing means performs the changing of the current profiles in a period after the fuel injector ends fuel injection till it starts next fuel injection, at timing when a predetermined period of time elapses after the end of the fuel injection.

7. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 5, wherein the current profile changing means performs the changing of the current profiles in a period after the fuel injector ends fuel injection till it starts next fuel injection, at a crank angle at which the fuel injection is not performed.

8. The fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein the invalid pulse width is selected after the current profiles are changed and after the fuel injection ends.