Method for operating a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, and control device for an internal combustion engine

US8996280B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Joos · Walheim, DE
• Ruben Schlueter · Yokohama, JP
• Jens Neuberg · Stuttgart, DE
• Helerson Kemmer · Oberaichen, DE
• Holger Rapp · Hemmingen, DE
• Haris Hamedovic · Heubach, DE
• Joerg Koenig · Stuttgart, DE
• Anh-Tuan Hoang · Plymouth, US
• Bernd Wichert · Weingarten, DE
• Achim Hirchenhein · Trier, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02D2041/2055
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method for operating a fuel injector, a transition range of the characteristics curve of the injector is detected individually and adapted continuously, so that a monotonous characteristics curve is formed, with whose aid high metering precision of the injector is achieved.