Injection control system of diesel engine

• US 6,990,958 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2004
• Issued: 01/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Asano, Masahiro, Takemoto, Eiji, Haraguchi, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): ARGENBRIGHT, TONY MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US10/980,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20050098158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• Field of Search: 123/436, 123/446, 123/447, 123/457, 123/458, 123/480, 123/674, 123/675, 701/104, 701/110
• US Class Current: 123/436
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1497 With detection of the mechanical response of the engine
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/2438 Active learning methods
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/2441 characterised by the learning conditions
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/247 Behaviour for small quantities
• 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 59/34 by throttling of passages to pumping elements or of overflow passages , e.g. throttling by means of a pressure-controlled sliding valve having liquid stop or abutment
• 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

Abstract

An electronic control unit (ECU) of an injection control system of an internal combustion engine determines that a load of a fuel pump is stabilized when a pressure-feeding operation delay elapses since a command pressure-feeding quantity outputted to the fuel pump reaches a certain pressure-feeding quantity necessary to maintain a target injection pressure. The ECU permits a single injection when a waiting period necessary to measure rotation speeds once for each cylinder before the single injection is performed elapses since the load of the fuel pump is stabilized. Thus, the single injection timing is determined based on the time point when the command pressure-feeding quantity is stabilized, the pressure-feeding operation delay, and the waiting period. Therefore, an injection quantity learning operation can be performed highly accurately in a short period.

Claims

1. An injection control system of a diesel engine having a common rail for accumulating fuel, which is pressure-fed by a fuel pump, and injectors for injecting the high-pressure fuel, which is supplied from the common rail, into combustion chambers of cylinders of the engine, the injection control system comprising:

condition determining means for determining whether a learning condition for performing an injection quantity learning operation is established;

pump commanding means for commanding the fuel pump to discharge a command pressure-feeding quantity of the fuel to control a pressure of the fuel accumulated in the common rail to a target injection pressure after the learning condition is established;

load determining means for determining whether a load of the fuel pump is stabilized after the pressure of the fuel is controlled to the target injection pressure;

permission determining means for determining whether a single injection in a specific cylinder of the engine for performing the injection quantity learning operation is permitted after it is determined that the load of the fuel pump is stabilized;

injector commanding means for commanding the injector to perform the single injection if the single injection is permitted;

measuring means for measuring a fluctuation of a rotation speed of the engine caused by performing the single injection;

calculating means for calculating a correction value based on the fluctuation of the rotation speed; and

correcting means for correcting a command injection quantity, which is outputted to the injector, in accordance with the correction value.

2. The injection control system as in claim 1, wherein

the load determining means determines that the load of the fuel pump is stabilized at least when the command pressure-feeding quantity outputted to the fuel pump reaches a certain pressure-feeding quantity necessary to maintain the target injection pressure.

3. The injection control system as in claim 2, wherein

the load determining means determines that the load of the fuel pump is stabilized if a pressure-feeding operation delay elapses since the command pressure-feeding quantity outputted to the fuel pump reaches the certain pressure-feeding quantity necessary to maintain the target injection pressure, wherein the pressure-feeding operation delay is a period from a time point when the command pressure-feeding quantity is outputted to the fuel pump to a time point when the fuel pump actually draws and pressure-feeds the fuel corresponding to the command pressure-feeding quantity.

4. The injection control system as in claim 1, wherein

the permission determining means permits the single injection if a waiting period elapses since the load of the fuel pump is stabilized, wherein the waiting period is a period necessary to measure the rotation speed of the engine before the single injection is performed after the load of the fuel pump is stabilized.

5. The injection control system as in claim 1, wherein

the calculating means calculates a target value of the fluctuation of the rotation speed from a command injection quantity corresponding to the single injection and calculates the correction value in accordance with a difference between the target value and the fluctuation of the rotation speed measured by the measuring means.

6. The injection control system as in claim 1, wherein the calculating means calculates an actual injection quantity of the fuel actually injected in the single injection based on the fluctuation of the rotation speed measured by the measuring means, and calculates the correction value in accordance with a difference between the actual injection quantity and a command injection quantity corresponding to the single injection.

7. The injection control system as in claim 6, wherein the calculating means calculates the correction value in accordance with a difference between injection pulse width corresponding to the actual injection quantity and injection pulse width corresponding to the command injection quantity.

8. The injection control system as in claim 1, wherein

the learning condition is established at least when the engine is in a no-injection state, in which the command injection quantity outputted to the injector is zero or under.