Automatic engine stop and start system

• US 4,453,506 A
• Filed: 04/26/1982
• Issued: 06/12/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueda, Masahiro, Hori, Osamu, Nakao, Hatsuo, Murata, Kimitoshi, Noba, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Dolinar, Andrew M.
• Application Number:
  US06/371,970
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 123/198 DB, 123/198 DC, 123/179 B, 123/179 BG, 123/179 A, 123/179 G, 180/54 R, 307/10 R
• US Class Current: 123/179.16
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 37/02 one of the functions being ignition
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0818 Conditions for starting or stopping the engine or for deactivating the idle-start-stop mode
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 11/025 Shortening the ignition when the engine is stopped to prevent damage to the coil F02P3/0556
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 3/0558 using digital techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

In a system wherein the operating conditions of various portions of a vehicle are detected and an engine is automatically stopped and started in accordance with the operating conditions thus detected, a fuel supply system is cut to prevent the run-on of the engine in addition to the cut-off of current passage to an ignition system as in the prior art. There controls are effected when both any one or more of predetermined operating conditions and any one or more of conditions of precluding the automatic stop are present.

Claims

1. An automatic engine stop and start system for an internal combustion engine having a slow port to which fuel is fed when the internal combustion engine is in an idling condition and an ignition circuit including an ignition plug and an ignition coil producing high voltage to be fed to said ignition plug, wherein predetermined operating conditions of various predetermined portions of a vehicle are detected and the internal combustion engine is automatically stopped and started in accordance with the detected operating conditions, comprising:

a fuel control valve for cutting fuel fed to said slow port when the internal combustion engine is automatically stopped; and

de-energizing means connected to said fuel control valve and said ignition coil for cutting off current fed to said ignition coil and simultaneously closing said fuel control valve when the predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled.

2. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 1, wherein said fuel control valve comprises:

a solenoid valve.

3. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 1, wherein said de-energizing means comprises:

a first relay switch interposed between said fuel control valve and a power source, and

a second relay switch interposed between said ignition coil and the power source,

wherein when said predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled, said first and second relay switches are opened, respectively, thereby cutting the currents fed to said fuel control valve and said ignition coil.

4. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 2, wherein said de-energizing means comprises:

a first relay switch interposed between said fuel control valve and a power source, and

a second relay switch interposed between said ignition coil and the power source,

wherein when said predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled, said first and second relay switches are opened, respectively, thereby cutting the currents fed to said fuel control valve and said ignition coil.

5. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 1, comprising:

means for opening said fuel control valve when said predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled,

whereby fuel is fed to the combustion engine through said slow port when the internal combustion engine is automatically started.

6. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 2, comprising:

means for opening said fuel control valve when said predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled,

whereby fuel is fed to the combustion engine through said slow port when the internal combustion engine is automatically started.

7. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 3, comprising:

means for opening said fuel control valve when said predetermined conditions for automatic engine stopping are fulfilled,

whereby fuel is fed to the combustion engine through said slow port when the internal combustion engine is automatically started.

8. An automatic engine stop and start system according to claim 4, comprising:

means for opening said fuel control valve when said predetermined conditions for automatic stopping are fulfilled,

whereby fuel is fed to the combustion engine through said slow port when the internal combustion engine is automatically started.