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Fuel control system for internal combustion engine

US5086744A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 10, 1991
Grant dateFeb 11, 1992
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Expiry dateJan 10, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02D41/047
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel control system for an engine has a fuel injector which injects fuel into an intake passage communicating with a combustion chamber. The quantity of a direct delivery part of fuel injected from the fuel injector which is directly fed to the combustion chamber is estimated, the quantity of a drawn part of fuel which has been on a wall surface of the intake passage and is vaporized and fed to the combustion chamber together with the direct delivery part is estimated, and the quantity of fuel to be injected from the fuel injection means is dcetermined on the basis of the estimated quantities of the direct delivery part and the drawn part so that the sum of them provides a desired quantity of fuel to be fed to the combustion chamber. The estimated quantity of at least one of the direct delivery part and the drawn part is increased as a factor which governs the degree of evaporation of the fuel on the wall surface changes in such a direction as to promote evaporation of the fuel on the wall surface.

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