Electrically throttled fuel control system for internal combustion engines

• US 4,168,679 A
• Filed: 09/01/1977
• Issued: 09/25/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ohnishi, Akihiro, Ikeura, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Myhre, Charles J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nelli, R. A.
• Application Number:
  US05/829,977
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 123/32 ED, 123/32 EE, 123/32 EB, 123/32 EA, 123/179 EC
• US Class Current: 123/399
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 31/002 controlling air supply
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 43/00 Conjoint electrical control of two or more functions, e.g. ignition, fuel-air mixture, recirculation, supercharging or exhaust-gas treatment

Abstract

A fuel control system for internal combustion engines includes a fuel injection control unit responsive to the amount of depression of an accelerator pedal to determine the fuel quantity and an air intake control unit which determines the amount of air to be mixed therewith in response to the determined fuel quantity to correspondingly operate a throttle valve. Fuel and air are supplied to the engine such that they reach the cylinder simultaneously.

Claims

1. A fuel control system for an internal combustion engine including an air intake passage, a throttle valve disposed therein and means for injecting fuel into said intake passage, comprising:

means for detecting the amount of depression by a vehicle occupant of an accelerator pedal;

means for determining the amount of fuel to be injected in response to the detected amount of acceleration and correspondingly operating said fuel injecting means; and

means for determining the amount of air to be inducted in response to the determined amount of fuel anc correspondingly operating said throttle valve so that air and fuel are mixed in a predetermined ratio.

2. A fuel control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said means for determining the amount of air comprises:

means for generating a first signal representative of an engine operating parameter;

means for generating a second signal representative of the determined amount of fuel; and

a control unit responsive to said first and second signals for deriving a third signal representative of the opening of said throttle valve.

3. A fuel control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said control unit comprises:

a memory array having a plurality of memory locations arranged in a matrix configuration, wherein at each of said memory locations there is stored a digital quantity representing a throttle opening for a particular set of engine operating parameter and fuel quantity;

means for converting said first and second signals into digital form;

means for selectively addressing a memory location in response to said converted digital signals; and

means for sensing the stored digital quantity in the addressed memory location; and

means for converting the sensed digital quantity into analog form to represent said third signal.

4. A fuel control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said engine operating parameter represents the speed of said engine.

5. A fuel control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said means for correspondingly operating said throttle valve includes a cylinder having first and second ports, a piston axially slidably disposed in said cylinder and operatively connected at one end to said throttle valve to vary its angular position, a piston head mounted at the other end of the piston for dividing the interior of said cylinder into separate portions, and selectively supplying fluid to one of said separate portions of the cylinder in response to the determined amount of air through said first and second ports.

6. A fuel control system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

means for detecting the deviation of the air-fuel ratio in an exhaust system of the engine from a desired value; and

means for adjusting the air inducted to said intake passage in response to the direction of the detected deviation of the air-fuel ratio to minimize the amount of said deviation.

7. A fuel control system for an internal combustion engine including an air intake passage, a throttle valve disposed therein and means for injecting fuel into said intake passage, comprising:

means for detecting the amount of depression by a vehicle occupant of an accelerator pedal;

means for determining the amount of fuel to be injected for each revolution of the engine in response to the detected amount of acceleration and correspondingly operating said fuel injecting means;

means for detecting the speed of said engine; and

means for determining the amount of air to be inducted for each revolution of the engine in response to the determined amount of fuel and to said detected engine speed such that air and fuel are mixed in a predetermined ratio and correspondingly operating said throttle valve.