Accumulator fuel injection system capable of preventing abnormally high pressure

• US 6,964,262 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2004
• Issued: 11/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Hayakawa, Yoshiki
• Primary Examiner(s): MOULIS, THOMAS N
• Application Number:
  US10/816,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20040200455A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 123457- 8, 123/179.16, 123/179.17
• US Class Current: 123/458
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2275/14 Direct injection into combustion chamber
• 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 2250/31 Control of the fuel pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0087 Selective cylinder activation, i.e. partial cylinder operation deceleration cut-off F02D41/123
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/062 for starting F02D41/061 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/123 the fuel injection being cut-off
• 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 41/3845 by controlling the flow into the common rail, e.g. the amount of fuel pumped
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 59/366 Valves being actuated electrically
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 63/0225 Fuel-injection apparatus having a common rail feeding several injectors F02M63/0003 takes precedence; Means for varying pressure in common rails; Pumps feeding common rails
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An accumulator fuel injection system 1 comprises a PC sensor 21 for detecting a common rail pressure, a pressure limiter 22 for keeping the common rail pressure below a high limit pressure by opening its valve when the common rail pressure exceeds the high limit pressure, and an ECU 14 for controlling flow rate of fuel to be injected from an injector 13 so that the common rail pressure reaches the high limit pressure when an engine is started in a state in which an abnormality has occurred in the supply under pressure by a supply pump 12. It is possible to keep the common rail pressure within an actually used region by opening the pressure limiter after the engine is started, even in a state in which a full open abnormality has occurred at a suction flow control valve 15.

Claims

1. An accumulator fuel injection system comprising:

a fuel supply pump driven by an internal combustion engine and supplying a fuel under pressure;

a common rail for accumulating a high-pressure fuel supplied under pressure by the fuel supply pump;

at least a fuel injection valve for injecting a fuel into a corresponding cylinder of the internal combustion engine;

a pressure safety valve for keeping a fuel pressure in the common rail below a predetermined high limit pressure by opening the pressure safety valve when the fuel pressure in the common rail exceeds the predetermined high limit pressure;

a fuel pressure detecting means for detecting the fuel pressure in the common rail;

an abnormally high-pressure detecting means for detecting that a detected value of the fuel pressure in the common rail detected by the fuel pressure detecting means exceeds a lower limit of an abnormally high-pressure region set lower than the high limit pressure and is in the abnormally high-pressure region; and

a fuel pressure increasing means for controlling the flow rate of fuel to be injected through the fuel injection valve so that the fuel pressure in the common rail reaches the high limit pressure when the internal combustion engine is started in a state in which the detected value of the fuel pressure in the common rail is in an abnormally high-pressure region by the abnormally high-pressure detecting means.

2. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the fuel pressure increasing means suspends fuel injection through the fuel injection valve at every cylinder.

3. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the fuel pressure increasing means suspends fuel injection, through the fuel injection valve, at some cylinders.

4. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 2, comprising a fuel injection starting means for starting fuel injection, at the cylinders at which fuel injection through the fuel injection valve has been suspended, when the detected value of the fuel pressure in the common rail falls below the lower limit of the abnormally high-pressure region.

5. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 4, wherein the fuel injection starting means increases the number of cylinders, at which fuel injection is started, step by step.

6. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 4, wherein the fuel injection starting means starts fuel injection when a predetermined period of time elapses after the internal combustion engine is started.

7. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 6, comprising a start condition learning means for changing the setting of the predetermined period of time by learning.

8. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 4, wherein the fuel injection starting means starts fuel injection when the fuel pressure in the common rail is judged to be stable by monitoring the detected value of the fuel pressure in the common rail.

9. An accumulator fuel injection system, as set forth in claim 8, comprising a start condition learning means for changing the conditions for judging whether the fuel pressure in the common rail is stable, by learning.