Fuel injection method for gas fuel engine

• US 5,735,248 A
• Filed: 08/15/1996
• Issued: 04/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nishida, Toshiyuki, Aoki, Shigeru, Ueda, Kazuhiro, Nakajima, Susumu, Minami, Hideki, Matsuura, Hiromi
• Primary Examiner(s): ARGENBRIGHT, TONY MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/698,519
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 123/478, 123/526, 123/527, 123/528, 123/DIG. 12
• US Class Current: 123/527
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 19/024 by controlling fuel injectors
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 19/027 Determining the fuel pressure, temperature or volume flow, the fuel tank fill level or a valve position
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0224 Secondary gaseous fuel storages
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0278 Port fuel injectors for single or multipoint injection into the air intake system
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/30 Use of alternative fuels, e.g. biofuels

Abstract

A fuel injection method wherein optimum fuel injection timing in a fuel-injection type gas fuel engine is determined by setting fuel injection end timing to be after the start of opening of an intake valve. That is, when injection ends in a first half of the intake valve open period the volumetric efficiency ηv falls and the engine output also falls, because the injection period overlaps with a period of positive pressure arising inside the intake pipe before opening of the intake valve, but when injection ends in a second half of the intake valve open period the volumetric efficiency ηv rises and the engine efficiency also rises, because the injection period overlaps with a period of negative pressure arising in the intake pipe during the first half of the intake value open period. Consequently, when fuel is injected during this trough in the intake port pressure, the volumetric efficiency increases and the engine output also increases by several percent.

Claims

1. A fuel injection method for a gas fuel engine having an intake port into which a gaseous fuel is injected, said method comprising the step of:

setting fuel injection end timing to be after the start of opening of an intake valve of said engine and fuel injection start timing to be before the start of opening of said intake valve of said engine.

2. A fuel injection method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

causing ignition to take place at a crank angle of 0° and

at a top dead center; and

causing fuel injection to end at a crank angle in a range of 480°

-690°

.

3. A fuel injection method for a gas fuel engine having an intake port into which a gaseous fuel is injected, said method comprising the steps of:

causing the injection to take place at a plurality of divided injection periods; and

making said injection periods coincide with periods in which intake port pressure falls in the shape of a trough.