System for controlling air-fuel ratio during intake control device transitions

• US 6,571,771 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2001
• Issued: 06/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Suffredini, Giuseppe D., Halverson, Jon Walter, Cunningham, Ralph Wayne, Doering, Jeffrey Allen, Mingo, Paul Charles, Linenberg, Mark Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Wolfe, Willis R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gimie, Mahmoud
• Application Number:
  US09/866,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20010054413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: 123/492, 123/480, 123/493, 123/478, 701/102
• US Class Current: 123/480
• 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: F02M 26/46 for determining the characteristics of gases, e.g. composition

Abstract

A method and system for controlling the fuel mass to be delivered to an individual cylinder of an internal combustion engine during engine transients caused by intake control device transitions. The method and system compensates for fuel transport dynamics and the actual fuel injected into the cylinder. A plurality of engine parameters are sensed, including cylinder air charge. An initial base desired fuel mass is determined based on the plurality of engine parameters. An initial transient fuel mass is also determined based on prior injection history which, in turn, is modified based on the transition of the intake control device for that cylinder. A desired injected fuel mass to be delivered to the cylinder is determined based on the initial base desired fuel mass and the initial transient fuel mass. These same calculations are then used to compensate for changes to the base desired fuel mass while the fuel injection is in progress, resulting in an updated desired injected fuel mass. Finally, the injection history for that cylinder is updated to account for the actual desired fuel mass delivered to the cylinder.

Claims

1. A method for determining fuel mass to be delivered to an individual cylinder of an internal combustion engine, comprising:

determining an initial base desired fuel mass as a function of a plurality of engine parameters;

determining an initial transient fuel mass as a function of a prior injection history;

modifying said prior injection history as a function of a state of a two-stage manifold comparing a percentage open value of said two-stage manifold to a first predetermined calibratable value;

determining a desired injected fuel mass as a function of said initial base desired fuel mass and said initial transient fuel mass controlling said fuel delivered to said individual cylinder as a function of said desired injected fuel mass; and

delivering the desired injected fuel mass.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said two-stage intake manifold comprises an intake manifold runner control valve.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said two-stage intake manifold comprises a swirl control valve.

4. A fuel control system having a plurality of cylinders and a two-stage intake manifold having an on state and an off state, each of said individual cylinders having an intake port for regulating entry of fuel into the cylinder and having a prior injection history indicating a mass of fuel previously delivered to the individual cylinder, said system comprising:

a plurality of sensors for sensing a plurality of engine parameters; and

a ECU having control logic operative to determine an initial base desired fuel mass based on said plurality of engine parameters;

determine an initial transient fuel mass based on said prior injection history, said injection history modified based on a state of said two-stage manifold by comparing a percentage open value of said two-stage manifold to a first predetermined calibrated value;

determine a desired injected fuel mass to be delivered to said individual cylinder based on said initial base desired fuel mass and said initial transient fuel mass;

control said fuel delivered to the individual cylinder based on said desired injected fuel mass;

sense delivery of said desired injected fuel mass to said individual cylinder; and

determine an updated prior injection history based on said desired injected fuel mass and said prior injection history.

5. The system as recited in claim 4 wherein said two-stage intake manifold comprises an intake manifold runner control valve.

6. The system as recited in claim 4 wherein said two-stage intake manifold comprises a swirl control valve.