Patent classifications
F02D41/221
Fuel pump with electronic controlled pressure regulation and failure mitigation
A fuel pump system for aircraft includes an auxiliary fuel pump in-line with the primary pump, and an electric motor driving the auxiliary fuel pump at an operational motor speed. The system includes an electric control circuit (ECC) and a pressure sensor to regulate the speed of the electric motor based on the output pressure from the sensor to maintain a constant predetermined output pressure. The system may have additional fault mitigation circuitry configured to automatically switch from a processor-controlled to a fixed voltage as a source of power driving the electric motor at either a regulated speed or a constant fixed speed, respectively. The system may include a switch having user-selectable operational modes, including ECC-controlled mode and a high boost mode selectable if the ECC fails. In high boost mode, the ECC is bypassed to drive the electric motor at a fixed safe speed.
ONBOARD DIAGNOSIS AND COMPENSATION FOR TIP WEAR IN FUEL INJECTOR
A fuel system for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel control system having a fueling control unit structured to determine a test point on a tip wear-sensitive region of a fuel injector delivery curve, and store measurements of pressure drops in a pressurized fuel reservoir caused by injections of fuel at the test point. The fueling control unit is further structured to produce an injector health signal based on the stored measurements of pressure drop. Related methodology and control logic for calculation of wear parameters for injection signal duration electronic trimming and prognostic health determinations are also disclosed.
CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL METHOD FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, AND MEMORY MEDIUM
An upstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting an upstream gas temperature at a starting point in time of integration from the upstream gas temperature after starting of the internal combustion engine. A downstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a downstream gas temperature at the starting point in time of the integration from the downstream gas temperature after the starting of the internal combustion engine. An anomaly diagnosing process obtains an anomaly determination result indicating that the exhaust purification device is in a removed state when a deviation between the upstream integrated value and the downstream integrated value is smaller than a reference level. The determination threshold is higher than a dew point.
Cavitation Detection Using Torque Load and/or Instantaneous Fuel Consumption
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of controllers (e.g., control panels, etc.) configured to be operable for detecting cavitation using torque load and/or instantaneous fuel consumption. In exemplary embodiments, a controller is configured to be operable for monitoring at least one of engine torque load and/or engine instantaneous fuel consumption for fluctuation (e.g., significant drop/downward fluctuation in average magnitude and/or erratic, noisy, fluctuating data, etc.) indicative of pump cavitation, thereby enabling the controller to be operable for alerting to indications of pump cavitation when fluctuation of the monitored engine torque load and/or engine instantaneous fuel consumption indicate pump cavitation.
Fuel system for preventing fuel tank expansion
A vehicle fuel system includes a turbocharger having a compressor disposed on an intake line of an engine. The compressor selectively compresses intake air supplied to the engine. The fuel system has a canister configured to capture fuel vapor discharged from a fuel tank and a purge control valve configured to open or close the purge line depending on a pressure of the intake line. The fuel system has a check valve provided on the purge line that blocks movement of a fluid from the intake line to the canister. The fuel system has a controller performing control such that the purge control valve is operated in a closed mode to prevent intake air in the intake line from being introduced into the fuel tank when breakdown of the check valve is sensed during driving of the vehicle.
FUEL INJECTOR DRIVE SYSTEM
A fuel injection system includes a first fuel injector having a first electronically-controlled valve and a first injection valve configured to inject fuel when the first electronically-controlled valve is actuated. A second fuel injector has a second electronically-controlled valve and a second injection valve configured to inject fuel when the second electronically-controlled valve is actuated. The fuel injection system also includes a single fuel injector driver configured to actuate the first electronically-controlled valve and the second electronically-controlled valve.
MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE
A motor control device includes: a rotation control determination unit configured to determine whether a motor rotation control to rotate the motor fails; a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a control failure frequency parameter having a correlation with a frequency of failure in the motor rotation control based on a determination result by the rotation control determination unit; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether an abnormality has occurred in the motor based on the control failure frequency parameter.
MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE
A motor control device includes: a rotation control determination unit configured to determine whether a motor rotation control to rotate the motor fails; a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a control failure frequency parameter having a correlation with a frequency of failure in the motor rotation control based on a determination result by the rotation control determination unit; an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether an abnormality has occurred in the motor based on the control failure frequency parameter; and a stop suppression unit configured to suppress stop of rotation of the motor by changing a motor control parameter to perform the motor rotation control when the abnormality determination unit determines that an abnormality has occurred in the motor.
Control device for internal combustion engine using imbalance diagnosis and abnormality determination
When imbalance diagnosis is not executed, target fuel pressure is set based on a rotation speed and volumetric efficiency of an engine, and when the imbalance diagnosis is executed, fuel pressure smaller than the target fuel pressure settable when the imbalance diagnosis is not executed is set as the target fuel pressure, and a high-pressure fuel pump that supplies fuel to a delivery pipe connected to the in-cylinder injection valve, is driven and controlled such that detected fuel pressure becomes the target fuel pressure. With this, it is possible to execute the imbalance diagnosis with higher accuracy.
Control device for internal combustion engine
An electronic control unit of a control device for an internal combustion engine executes, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling an actuator such that a pin drive operation is executed for switching from a first cam to a second cam, executes second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle, and executes abnormality determination processing for determining that a cam switching mechanism has an abnormality in a case where a pin returns to a reference position by using a pin return section following a cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing.