Fuel injector control utilizing fuel film flow parameters

• US 5,404,856 A
• Filed: 08/09/1993
• Issued: 04/11/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Motor Company
• Inventors: Servati, Hamid B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nelli, Raymond A.
• Application Number:
  US08/103,378
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 123/478, 123/684, 123/492, 123/493, 123/480, 123/682, 364/431.08
• US Class Current: 123/478
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2275/14 Direct injection into combustion chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/047 Taking into account fuel evaporation or wall wetting; special correction after fuel cut-off F02D41/126
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine which compensates for intake port and intake valve wall wetting is disclosed. The system compensates for fuel film flow on the wall to maintain a substantially constant air/fuel ratio during acceleration and deceleration. Physical characteristics of the air and fuel used in engine combustion, intake manifold pressure, and engine speed are processed by the engine control to control the amount of fuel injected by the fuel injector with a compensation for unvaporized fuel on intake port surfaces.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising the steps of:

determining air charge temperature and generating an air charge temperature signal representative thereof;

determining engine air mass flow and generating an engine air mass flow signal representative thereof;

determining fuel wetted area and generating a fuel wetted area signal representative thereof;

determining manifold pressure and generating a manifold pressure signal representative thereof;

determining engine speed and generating an engine speed signal representative thereof;

determining puddle fuel temperature and generating a puddle fuel temperature signal representative thereof;

determining fuel wetted area puddle mass and generating a fuel wetted area puddle mass signal representative thereof;

calculating, from data represented by the air charge temperature signal, the engine air mass flow signal, the fuel wetted area signal, the manifold pressure signal, the engine speed signal, the puddle fuel temperature signal, and the fuel wetted area puddle mass signal, fuel film flow according to the following formula;

##EQU5## where;

ACT=air charge temperature (in °

R)

AM=engine air mass flow (in pounds per second)

D=fuel wetted area characteristic diameter (in feet)

L=fuel wetted area characteristic length (in feet)

PMAN=manifold pressure (in inches of Hg)

N=engine speed (in RPM),

T_F =puddle fuel temperature (in °

F.)

NYCL=number of engine cylinders

PM=fuel wetted area puddle mass

generating a control signal representative of the fuel film flow; and

controlling, in response to the fuel film flow signal, the amount of fuel injected to compensate for unvaporized fuel that is deposited on an intake component surface that flows as a film into an engine cylinder during injection cycles.