Method and device for correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine

• US 4,879,673 A
• Filed: 07/21/1986
• Issued: 11/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kizaki, Mikio, Kobayashi, Fumiaki, Ito, Yoshiyasu, Matsuno, Kiyotaka, Tsukamoto, Keisuke, Nagase, Masaomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lall, Parshotam S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ellis B.
• Application Number:
  US06/887,659
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• Field of Search: 364/431.05, 364/431.06, 364/571, 123/506, 123/519, 123/479, 123/359, 123/357, 123/458
• US Class Current: 702/100
• 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 2041/228 Warning displays
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/0406 Intake manifold pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/18 Control of the engine output torque
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/32 Air-fuel ratio control in a diesel engine
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/22 Safety or indicating devices for abnormal conditions in air/fuel ratio feedback systems F02D41/1495, in electric control linkage F02D11/107, in purge control systems F02M25/0809
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/408 of the distributing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

According to the present invention, when means is provided for correcting a shift in phase of an engine rotation pulse and a dispersion in responses of an electromagnetic spill valve, and a control signal to a fuel injection pump is corrected in response to an output from the correcting means, if abnormality of output from the correcting means is detected, then the control signal to the fuel injection pump is corrected by use of a fixed valve. As a consequence, even when the output from the correcting means is abnormal, neither excessively large nor excessively small correction is performed and the running at the lowest level can be made, preventing the diesel smoke from being deteriorated and the engine from being damaged.

Claims

1. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine, comprising correcting a shift in an engine rotation pulse and dispersion of responses of an electromagnetic spill valve by correcting means which provide a fixed output, correcting a control signal to a fuel injection pump in response to said fixed output from said correcting means,

detecting abnormal outputs from said correcting means;

and

correcting a control signal to said fuel injection pump by use of a fixed value when the output from said correcting means is abnormal.

2. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said correcting means includes:

a phase correction resistor for correcting a change in an injection quantity per stroke due to a press-in shift of an engine rotation pulser and a shift in position of an engine rotation sensor; and

a response correction resistor for correcting a change in an injection quantity per stroke due to a dispersion of delayed responses of the electromagnetic spill valve.

3. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said correcting means is a phase correction resistor for correcting a change in an injection quantity per stroke due to a press-in shift of an engine rotation pulser and a shift in position of an engine rotation sensor.

4. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said correcting means is a response correction resistor for correcting a change in an injection quantity per stroke due to a dispersion of delayed responses of an electromagnetic spill valve.

5. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein abnormality of output from said correcting means is detected from the fact that the conditions of output from said correcting means are beyond a normal range continued more than a preset number of times.

6. A method of correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said fixed value is made to be a value close to the lower limit value of the dispersion of output from said correcting means.

7. A device for correcting a fuel injection quantity in a diesel engine, comprising means for correcting a shift in an engine rotation pulse and a dispersion of responses of an electromagnetic spill valve such that a control signal to a fuel injection pump is corrected in response to a fixed output from said correcting means,

means for detecting abnormal output from said correcting means;

and

means for correcting a control signal to said fuel injection pump by use of a fixed value when the output from said correcting means is abnormal.