Methods and systems are provided for an engine for adjusting cylinder parameter settings to optimize engine output during a transient mode. In one example, a method may include adjusting cylinder parameter settings, including a cam timing setting, a spark timing setting, and a fuel injection timing setting based on a chamber temperature in response to a rate of fuel injection acceleration being greater than a positive threshold, thus indicating the engine is in the transient mode.

Systems and methods for improving accuracy of an amount of fuel injected to an engine are disclosed. In one example, timing of a fuel injector off command is adjusted according to attributes of fuel injector holding current so that a fuel injector may provide a requested fuel amount. The fuel injector off command may be adjusted according to an amount of holding current that is expected to be flowing through the fuel injector at a time when the fuel injector is commanded off.

The present invention discloses a method of operating an internal combustion engine comprising a controllable injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, the injector communicating with a fuel accumulator through which it is supplied with fuel, the method comprising the following steps: determining a first pressure value of the pressure in the fuel accumulator on the basis of a first pressure measurement, determining a second pressure value of the pressure in the fuel accumulator on the basis of a second pressure measurement carried out after the first pressure measurement, and determining an injector opening duration depending on the first and the second pressure value.

The present invention provides a fuel injection control apparatus that can suppress variations in fuel injection amounts in a very small fuel injection region. For this purpose, the fuel injection control apparatus includes a fixed injection pulse generator 10 and a drive current interruption unit 31. The fixed injection pulse generator 10 generates a fixed injection pulse having a valve opening timing at which a drive current is supplied to an electromagnetic coil 19 in an electromagnetic fuel injection valve 18 and a first valve closing timing at which the drive current to the electromagnetic coil 19 is interrupted. Within a period in which the fixed injection pulse is generated, the drive current interruption unit 31 determines an electric energy amount of a drive current supplied to the electromagnetic coil in response to a valve opening timing of the fixed injection pulse. When this electric energy amount reaches a preset, predetermined target electrical energy amount, the drive current interruption unit generates a second valve closing timing of the fixed injection pulse different from the first valve closing timing and then interrupts the drive current supplied to the electromagnetic coil before the first valve closing timing.

A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or a second injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in an intake stroke in the first injection mode, while inject the fuel in a compression stroke in the second injection mode.

Systems and methods for improving accuracy of an amount of fuel injected to an engine are disclosed. In one example, a maximum holding current of a fuel injector is adjusted so that a holding current of a fuel injector is equal to a predetermined value when the fuel injector is commanded to cease injecting fuel.

A method for training a data-based evaluation model to determine an opening or closing time of an injection valve based on a sensor signal. The method includes: measuring an operation of the injection valve in order to determine at least one sensor signal and an associated opening or closing time; sampling the sensor signal at a sampling rate in order to obtain a sensor signal time series with sensor signal values; determining a plurality of training data sets by assigning a plurality of evaluation point time series generated from a sensor signal time series to the opening or closing time associated with the sensor signal, wherein the evaluation point time series has a lower temporal resolution than the sensor signal time series; training the data-based evaluation model depending on the determined training data sets.

Presented are multi-pulse fuel injection systems for monitoring engine fuel injectors for missed pulses, methods for making/using such systems, and vehicles equipped with such systems. A method of operating a fuel injection system includes an engine controller determining if the system's injectors are operating in a multi-pulse mode for injecting multiple fuel pulses per combustion cycle to an engine's cylinders and, if so, monitoring pulse signals transmitted to the injectors for injecting the multiple fuel pulses. For each combustion cycle for each injector, the controller flags a cylinder misfire if any one of the fuel pulses for that combustion cycle is missed. For each cylinder, the controller calculates a misfire ratio of a total number of cylinder misfires to a total number of combustion cycles; if one of these misfire ratios exceeds a calibrated misfire limit, the controller commands a resident subsystem to execute control operations to mitigate the misfires.

A method of controlling fuel injection to an internal combustion engine to reduce cylinder wall wetting, smokiness, and unclean combustion, on a cumulative basis, applies a self-adaptive control on a gasoline injection initial angle. Gasoline injection initial or original angle is known, being preset, and a self-adaptive controlling volume is added. The self-adaptive controlling volume is the addition of a first self-adaptive controlling volume and a second self-adaptive controlling volume to the original angle. The first self-adaptive controlling volume relates to predicted load and an engine coolant temperature. The second self-adaptive controlling volume is based on the rotating speed of the engine. Cylinder wall wetting is reduced or avoided, smoke is reduced, and cleaner combustion is achieved. An engine fuel injection control apparatus applying the method is also provided.

A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in an injection start priority mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or an injection end priority mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in the injection start priority mode or the injection end priority mode in accordance with an injection mode.