Electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus an internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus, and a drive circuit of an electromagnetic system fuel injection apparatus

• US 6,332,453 B1
• Filed: 12/23/1999
• Issued: 12/25/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Car Engineering Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Car Engineering Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okamoto, Yoshio, Yamakado, Makoto, Hamada, Yasunaga, Tabuchi, Kenji, Tanabe, Yoshiyuki, Kubo, Hiromasa, Takahata, Toshio, Kadomukai, Yzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Yuen, Henry C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gimie, Mahmoud
• Application Number:
  US09/471,500
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 123/490, 123/472, 123/478, 123/480, 123/482, 355/256, 361/139
• US Class Current: 123/490
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2003 using means for creating a boost voltage, i.e. generation or use of a voltage higher than the battery voltage, e.g. to speed up injector opening
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2013 by using a boost voltage source
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2017 using means for creating a boost current or using reference switching
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2027 Control of the current by pulse width modulation or duty cycle control
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2051 using voltage control
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/2079 the circuit having several coils acting on the same anchor
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2400/16 Adaptation of engine control systems to a different battery voltages, e.g. for using high voltage batteries
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/20 Output circuits, e.g. for controlling currents in command coils
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/005 Arrangement of electrical wires and connections, e.g. wire harness, sockets, plugs; Arrangement of electronic control circuits in or on fuel injection apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/0621 acting on one mobile armature F02M51/0628 takes precedence

Abstract

Using a control coil having a high response characteristic suited to valve opening and a hold coil suited to a hold to valve open during fuel injection using a small current, during the valve opening time, a high voltage is applied to the control coil suited to the valve opening operation and, during the time the valve is to be held open a low and stabilized voltage is applied to the hold coil. In a fuel injection apparatus, drive manner employed during a valve opening time and a valve hold time is optimized.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having at least two coils which produce a different time change rate of magnetomotive force, and wherein, to said at least two coils, a different voltage is applied via said drive circuit, each of said at least two coils being coupled to a respective power supply having a different voltage.

6. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus according to any one of claim 1 to claim 5, wherein to one of said at least two coils which has a large time change rate of magnetomotive force, a high voltage is applied, and to another of said at least two coils which has a small time change rate of magnetomotive force, a low voltage is applied.

10. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 8, wherein said drive circuit is installed in an interior portion of an engine control unit which controls an operation condition of an internal combustion engine.

2. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having at least two coils having a different winding number, and wherein, to said at least two coils, a different voltage is applied via said drive circuit, each of said at least two coils being coupled to a respective power supply having a different voltage.

3. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having at least two coils having a different length, and wherein, to said at least two coils, a different voltage is applied via said drive circuit, each of said at least two coils being coupled to a respective power supply having a different voltage.

4. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having at least two coils having a different cross-sectional area of wire material, and wherein, to said at least two coils, a different voltage is applied via said drive circuit, each of said at least two coils being coupled to a respective power supply having a different voltage.

5. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having at least two coils having a different electric resistance value between terminals thereof, and wherein, to said at least two coils, a different voltage is applied, each of said at least two coils being coupled to a respective power supply having a different voltage.

7. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having a fuel injection orifice, a seat valve provided upstream of said fuel injection orifice, a valve body for performing an opening and closing of a fuel passage between said valve seat and said valve body, and at least two coils for generating a drive force to effect movement of said valve body, including a first coil having a large time rate of change of magnetomotive force, which is a product of a winding number and a current valve, and a second coil having a smaller time rate of change of magnetomotive force than that of said first coil, wherein said drive-circuit includes a first switching means for performing an on and off application of a first voltage to said first coil and a second switching means for performing an on and off application of a second voltage, which is lower than said first voltage, to said second coil, said first switching means being different than said second switching means.

9. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus according to claim 7 or claim 8, further including a circuit for stabilizing said second voltage.

8. An electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector, a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector and a control circuit for sending a control signal to said drive circuit, said electromagnetic fuel injector having a fuel injection orifice, a seat valve provided upstream of said fuel injection orifice, a valve body for performing an opening and closing of a fuel passage between said valve seat and said valve body, and at least two coils for generating a drive force of said valve body, including a first coil having a large time rate of change of magnetomotive force, which is a product of a winding number and a current value, and a second coil having a smaller time rate of change of magnetomotive force than that of said first coil, wherein said drive circuit includes a first switching means for performing an on and off application of a first voltage to said first coil and a second switching means for performing an on and off application of a second voltage, which is lower than said first voltage, to said second coil, and wherein, at a valve opening operation initial stage of said valve body, said first voltage is applied to said first coil and said second voltage is applied to said second coil to generate a magnetic flux having the same direction, and, after a predetermined time, only said second coil is energized, said first switching means being different than said second switching means.

11. An internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus for injecting a fuel, a fuel supply means for supplying the fuel to said fuel injection apparatus, a cylinder for burning the fuel injected by said fuel injection apparatus, an air intake means for supplying air to said cylinder, an ignition means for igniting an air-fuel mixture in said cylinder, an air exhaust means for exhausting an exhaust gas from said cylinder, and an engine control unit for controlling said air intake means, said air exhaust means, said ignition means and said fuel injection apparatus;

said electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector having a fuel injection orifice, a seat valve provided upstream of said fuel injection orifice, a valve body for performing an opening and closing of a fuel passage between said valve seat and said valve body, and at least two coils for generating a drive force of said valve body, including a first coil having a large time rate of change of magnetomotive force, which is a product of a winding number and a current value, and a second coil having a smaller time rate of change of magnetomotive force than that of said first coil, wherein said drive circuit includes a first switching means for performing an on and off application of a first voltage to said first coil and a second switching means for performing an on and off application of a second voltage, which is lower than said first voltage, to said second coil, and wherein said second voltage is a lower voltage than said first voltage, said first switching means being different than said second switching means.

12. An internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus for injecting a fuel, a fuel supply means for supplying the fuel to said fuel injection apparatus, a cylinder for burning the fuel injected by said fuel injection apparatus in at an interior portion a fuel injection apparatus, an air intake means for supplying air to said cylinder, an ignition means for igniting an air-fuel mixture in said cylinder, an air exhaust means for exhausting an exhaust gas from said cylinder, and an engine control unit for controlling said air intake means, said air exhaust means, said ignition means and said fuel injection apparatus;

said electromagnetic fuel injection apparatus comprising an electromagnetic fuel injector and a drive circuit for driving said electromagnetic fuel injector, said electromagnetic fuel injector a fuel injection orifice, a seat valve provided upstream of said fuel injection orifice, a valve body for performing an opening and closing of a fuel passage between said valve seat and said valve body, and at least two coils for generating a drive force to effect movement of said valve body, including a first coil having a large time rate of change of magnetomotive force, which is a product of a winding number and a current value, and a second coil having a smaller time rate of change of magnetomotive force than that of said first coil, a first power supply for supplying a first voltage to said first coil and a second power supply for supplying a second voltage to said second coil, wherein said first power supply applies said first voltage having a high voltage to said first coil and said second power supply applies said second voltage having a lower voltage than said first voltage of said first power supply to said second coil, said first switching means being different than said second switching means.