Controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in diesel engine

• US 4,502,439 A
• Filed: 03/03/1983
• Issued: 03/05/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyagi, Hideo, Nagase, Masaomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Moy, Magdalen Y. C.
• Application Number:
  US06/471,667
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 123/479, 123/357-359, 123/501, 123/502
• US Class Current: 123/357
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 3/06 with compression ignition compression ignition engines using air or gas for blowing fuel into compressed air in cylinder F02B13/02
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/226 Fail safe control for fuel injection pump
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/222 relating to the failure of sensors or parameter detection devices
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/401 Controlling injection timing F02D41/402 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/408 of the distributing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

In a controlling device wherein operating conditions in the respective parts of a Diesel engine are detected by means of sensors, injection timing of fuel is calculated from the results detected, and at the same time a control valve provided in an oil pressure circuit for controlling the timing is controlled by means of electronic control in such that an actual injection timing of fuel obtained by a timer position sensor provided on a fuel injection pump comes to be close to the injection timing calculated, a vehicle which can attain whose minimum traveling by such a way that any abnormality in the timer position sensor is decided in response to a magnitude of output signals from the timer position sensor, at the same time, any trouble or accident of a timer oil pressure circuit is decided on the basis of a difference between the calculated injection timing and the actual injection timing, and the fuel is injected after either decreasing a prescribed quantity from a target quantity of injection obtained by calculation, or decreasing a prescribed quantity from the maximum injection quantity Q_FULL at the time of these decisions.

Claims

1. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine having a fuel injection pump including:

a timer means for controlling an actual fuel injection timing in accordance with a position of said timer, said position being changed on the basis of an oil pressure applied to said timer through an oil pressure circuit;

a timer position sensor for detecting said position of said timer to produce a position signal indicative of said position of said timer; and

a means for injecting fuel in accordance with a drive signal indicative of a final quantity of fuel injection;

wherein said controlling device comprises;

a means for calculating a quantity of fuel injection and a maximum injection quantity in accordance with an engine operating condition;

a means for deciding any trouble or accident of said timer position sensor on the basis of said position signal;

a means for deciding any trouble or accident of said oil pressure circuit based on such a fact that a deviation of an injection timing calculated on the basis of operating conditions in the respective parts of said Diesel engine detected by sensors from said actual injection timing determined on the basis of said position signal is more than a set point which has previously been set;

a means for subtracting by a predetermined quantity from said maximum injection quantity at the time of deciding any of said troubles or accidents; and

a means for selecting less quantity out of the calculated quantity of fuel injection and the maximum injection quantity and producing said drive signal in accordance with the quantity thus selected.

2. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a Diesel engine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said deviation is compared with said set point at only the time when a rotational speed of said engine is more than a predetermined set level.

3. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a Diesel engine as claimed in claim 1, wherein any trouble or accident of said oil pressure circuit is decided at only the time when the number of times in such occasion that said deviation exceeds said set point is more than a predetermined number of times.

4. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a Diesel engine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an alarm lamp turned on when any troubles or accidents is decided.

5. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a Diesel engine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said quantity of fuel injection is calculated on the basis of a rotational speed of the engine and an amount of depression of an accelerator pedal.

6. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a Diesel engine as claimed in claim 5, wherein said maximum injection quantity is calculated on the basis of the rotational speed of the engine and an intake pressure of an intake manifold.

12. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said maximum injection quantity is calculated on the basis of the rotational speed of the engine and an intake pressure of an intake manifold.

7. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine having a fuel injection pump comprising:

a timer means for controlling an actual fuel injection timing in accordance with a position of said timer, said position being changed on the basis of an oil pressure applied to said timer through an oil pressure circuit;

a timer position sensor for detecting said position of said timer to produce a position signal indicative of said position of said timer; and

a means for injecting fuel in accordance with a drive signal indicative of a final quantity of fuel injection;

wherein said controlling device comprises;

a means for calculating a quantity of fuel injection and a maximum injection quantity in accordance with an engine operating condition;

a means for deciding any trouble or accident of said timer position sensor on the basis of said position signal;

a means for deciding any trouble or accident of said oil pressure circuit based on such a fact that a deviation of an injection timing calculated on the basis of operating conditions in the respective parts of said diesel engine detected by sensors from said actual injection timing determined on the basis of said position signal is more than a set point which has previously been set;

a means for subtracting by a predetermined quantity from said calculated quantity of fuel injection at the time of deciding any of said troubles or accidents; and

a means for selecting a less quantity out of the calculated quantity of fuel injection and the maximum injection quantity and producing said drive signal in accordance with the quantity thus selected.

8. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said deviation is compared with said set point at only the time when a rotational speed of said engine is more than a predetermined set level.

9. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine as claimed in claim 7, wherein any trouble or accident of said oil pressure circuit is decided at only the time when the number of times in such occasion that said deviation exceeds said set point is more than a predetermined number of times.

10. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

an alarm lamp turned on when any one of troubles or accidents is decided.

11. A controlling device for quantity of fuel injection in a diesel engine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said quantity of fuel injection is calculated on the basis of a rotational speed of the engine and an amount of depression of an accelerator pedal.