CA2043241C - Fuel injection rate control system for starting two-cycle engine - Google Patents

Fuel injection rate control system for starting two-cycle engine

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CA2043241C
CA2043241C CA 2043241 CA2043241A CA2043241C CA 2043241 C CA2043241 C CA 2043241C CA 2043241 CA2043241 CA 2043241 CA 2043241 A CA2043241 A CA 2043241A CA 2043241 C CA2043241 C CA 2043241C
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Kazuo Suzuki
Tomoyuki Hirose
Tsutomu Kimura
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Hitachi Unisia Automotive Ltd
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Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02BINTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B75/00Other engines
    • F02B75/02Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke
    • F02B2075/022Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke having less than six strokes per cycle
    • F02B2075/025Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke having less than six strokes per cycle two

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Abstract

Herein disclosed is a fuel injection rate control system for starting a two-cycle engine having a fuel injection valve, which comprises: means for correcting the starting basic fuel injection rate, which is stored in advance interms of an engine temperature, in accordance with the cranking engine speed at the engine starting time: and means for performing a correction in accordance with the cranking time period, wherein the improvement comprises, as the means for correcting the starting basic fuel injection rate inaccordance with the cranking engine speed: first engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a first engine speed at a first start of the engine; means for deciding second later starts of the engine; and second engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a engine speed correction coefficient smaller than that of the first engine speed correction coefficient setting means when the second and later starts of the engine are decided by the decision means.

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2~43241 Title of the Invention Fuel Injection Rate Control System for Starting Two-Cycle Engine Background of the Invention (1 ) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a two-cycle engine and, more particularly, to a system for controlling the fuel injection rate for starting the two-cycle engine.
(2) Description of the Prior Art The fuel supply system by a carburetor is adopted in some two-cycle engine to be used in a motorcycle or a snowmobile. In this two-cycle engine, the exhaust port is left open in the scavenging stroke so that more or less air-fuel mixture (or fresh air) will pass together with the combustion gases throughthe cylinder. This raises a defect of low fuel economy.
In order to eliminate this defect, the fuel supply system is being changed from that using the carburetor to an electronic fuel injection system using a fuel injection valve (as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
63-255543). According to this disclosure, for example, the engine cylinders are equipped at their individual intake manifolds with fuel injection valves which are controlled to inject the fuel simultaneously for all the cylinders.
In the two-cycle engine using such an electronic fuel injection control system, the fuel injection rate for the start is controlled in the following manner.
In order to improve the startability, the fuel injection rate is so determined that it may be slightly higher for the start than that for the ordinary run.
At the start by an ignition switch, for example, the value computed from the following Equation is outputted at the cranking time:
TILN = TlLNTwK X KLN X KLT, wherein:
TILN: Injection pulse width forstarting;
TILNTwK: Basic injection rate for starting;
KLN: engine speed correcting coefficient; and KLT: Time correcting coefficient.
The basic injection rate for starting is one which is stored in advance in terms of an engine temperature; the engine speed correcting coefficient changes with the cranking engine speed; and the time correcting coefficient changes with the cranking time.
This two-cycle engine may fail to restart (as shown in Fig. 7) in case the engine stalls (or is stopped) for some cause after the engine is once started to complete the explosion. This failure occurs because the fuel is excessively enriched for the demanded injection rate due to the temperature rise in the cylinders and/or the residual fuel in the crankcase.
Summary of the Invention The present invention has been conceived in view of the above-specified problem of the prior art and has an object to provide a fuel injectionrate control system for starting a two-cycle engine, which is enabled to facilitate its restart and improve the startability by considering a correction coefficient according to the cranking engine speed so as to prevent the fuel injection rate from being enriched at the restart.
According to the present invention, there is provided, as shown in Fig.
1, a fuel injection rate control system for starting a two-cycle engine having afuel injection valve, which comprises: means for correcting the starting basic fuel injection rate, which is stored in advance in terms of an engine temperature, in accordance with the cranking engine speed at the engine starting time; and means for performing a correction in accordance with the cranking time period, wherein the improvement comprises, as the means for correcting said starting basic fuel injection rate in accordance with the cranking engine speed: first engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a first engine speed at a first start of the engine; means for deciding second later starts of the engine; and second engine speed. correction coefficient setting means for setting a engine speed correction coefficient smaller than that of said first engine speed. correction coefficient setting means when the second and later starts of the engine are decided by said decision means.
With the structure specified above, the first engine speed correction coefficient set by the first engine speed correction coefficient setting means is used at the first start of the engine to compute the fuel injection rate for thestart. If the second or later starts of the engine are decided, on the other hand, the first engine speed correction coefficient set by the second engine speed correction coefficient setting means is then used to compute the fuel injection rate for the start.
Even in case, therefore, the engine is stopped for some cause after it has been once started to complete the explosion and is restarted, the fuel injection rate is not enriched but can ensure the restart to improve the startability.
Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 is a block diagram corresponding to the claim of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a system diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a flow chart showing a fuel injection control routine for the start.
Figs. 4A to 4D are characteristic diagrams showing correction coefficients corresponding to the starting basic fuel injection rate, the cranking engine speed and the cranking time period, respectively.
Fig. 5 is a flow chart showing a routine for setting the engine speed correction coefficient.
Fig. 6 is a time chart for explaining the effects of the embodiment; and Fig. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the defects of the prior art.
Description of the Preferred Embodiment The present invention will be described in the following in connection with the embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in Fig. 2, a body 11 of a two-cycle engine sucks air from a not-shown air cleaner through a throttle valve 12 associated with an accelerator and through an intake manifold 13.
The intake manifold 13 has its branches equipped with fuel injection valves 14, respectively, for the engine cylinders. Each fuel injection valve 14 is of an electromagnetic type, in which it is opened and closed when its solenoid is energized and deenergized. In response to a drive pulse signal coming from a control unit 15, the fuel injection valve 14 is opened, with its solenoid energized, to inject the fuel, which is pumped by a not-shown fuel pump and has its pressure regulated to a predetermined level by a pressure regulator, into the engine body 11.
The control unit 15 processes the output signals, which are fed from a variety of sensors, by its built-in microcomputer to determine a fuel injection rate (or injection time) Ti and an injection timing (or injection type) and accordingly outputs the drive pulse signal to the fuel injection valve 14.
The aforementioned various sensors are exemplified by an air flow meter 16 which is disposed upstream of the throttle valve 12 to output a signal according to an intake air flow rate Q. Another sensor is a crank angle sensor 17 which is built in a not-shown distributor to output a reference signal at every crank angles of 120 degrees. Here can be detected the number of revolutions N of the engine by measuring the period of the aforementioned reference signal.

Still another sensor is a throttle sensor 18 of potentiometer type, which is attached to the throttle valve 12, to output a signal according to the opening ~ of the throttle valve 12. A further sensor is a water temperature sensor 19 which is attached to the water jacket of the engine body 11, to output a signal according to a cooling water temperature Tw as a representative of the engine temperature.
In the case of the two-cycle engine, on the other hand, the fresh air is supplied to the combustion chamber through a crankcase chamber so that it is influenced directly by the temperature of the crankcase. Therefore, the crankcase temperature may be used as the engine temperature in place of the cooling water temperature.
On the other hand, the control unit 15 is supplied with the voltage of a battery 20 as its operating power or for detecting a supply voltage VB.
Next, the fuel injection rate control for the start by the microcomputer in the control unit 15 will be described in the following with reference to the flow chart of Fig. 3.
At step (as will be abbreviated by "S", as shown) 1, it is decided whether or not the engine is to be started (by the ignition switch).
At start, the starting basic fuel injection rate TILNTwK~ which is determined, as shown in Fig. 4A, according to the cooling water temperature Tw detected by the water temperature sensor 19 in terms of the engine temperature, is retrieved at step 2. At step 3, the engine speed correction coefficient KLN, which is determined in advance, as will be described hereinafter with reference to Fig. 4B or 4C, from the engine engine speed, is retrieved.
At step 4, a time correction coef~icient KLT, which is determined, as shown in Fig. 4D, on the basis of and according to a cranking time period T, is retrieved.
At step 5, the injection pulse width TILN for the start is computed for the controls on the basis of the aforementioned Equation.
In the operations other than the start, the routine skips from step 1 to step 6 to compute Ti normally.
Here, the aforementioned control unit 1~ is equipped, as means for correcting the starting basic fuel injection rate TILNTwK~ with first engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a first engine speed at afirst start of the engine; means for deciding second later starts of the engine;and second engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a engine speed correction coefficient smaller than that of said first engine speed correction coefficient setting means when the second and later starts of the engine are decided by said decision means.
The operations of the individual means recited above will be described in the following on the basis of the routine for setting the engine speed correction coefficients of Fig. 5.
At step 11, the complete explosion is decided to decide the second and later starts of the engine. In other words, it is decided whether or not theengine speed has arisen to a preset or higher value.
With this rise, the start decided is the second or later one, and the routine advances to step 12. At step 12, the flag (F) is set to 1, and the routine advances to step 13. If NOT, the start is decided to be the first one, and the routine advances to step 13.
At step 13, it is decided whether or not the engine has stalled (or has been stopped). If NO, the routine is returned to repeat a similar flow.
If YES, the routine advances to step 14, at which it is decided whether or not the flag (F) is set at 1. If NO, the routine advances to step 15 to select the table map of Fig. 4B (IX ~ KLN1)-If YES, the routine advances to step 16 to select the table map of Fig4C (IX ~ KLN2)~
AT step 17, the value KLN1 or KLN2 according to the cranking engine speed is referred to in accordance with the selected table map (A ~ IX). At step 18, the referred KLN1 or KLN2 is set (KLN ~ A), and the routine is returned.
Here: step 15 corresponds to the first engine speed correction coefficient setting means of the present invention: step 16 corresponds to the second engine speed correction coefficient setting means; and step 11 corresponds to the means for setting the second and later starts of the engine.
Moreover, the table map of Fig. 4B sets the normal engine speed correction coefficient KLN1, and the table map Fig. 4C sets a smaller engine speed correction coefficient KLN2 than the engine speed correction coefficient of Fig. 4B.
According to the structure thus far described, there are prepared the two table maps of the engine speed correction coefficients according to the cranking engine speed so that the restart may refer to the table map of engine speed correction coefficient KLN2 having a smaller value than that of the engine speed correction coefficient KLN1 to be used for the first start.
Even in case the engine is restarted after the engine stalling which has been carried out for some cause after the start and complete explosion of the engine, the fuel injection rate is not enriched, but the restart can be ensured to improve the startability (as shown in Fig. 6).
According to the fuel injection rate control system for starting the two-cycle engine of the present invention, as has been described hereinbefore, there are prepared the two table maps of the engine speed correction coefficients according to the cranking engine speed so that the restart may refer to the table map of the engine speed correction coefficient KLN2 having a smaller value than that of the engine speed correction coefficient KLN1 to be used for the first start. As a result, the fuel injection rate is not enriched, but the restart can be ensured to improve the startability with practically high utilities.

Claims (3)

1. A fuel injection rate control system for starting a two-cycle engine having a fuel injection valve, comprising: means for correcting the starting basic fuel injection rate, which is stored in advance in terms of an engine temperature, in accordance with the cranking engine speed at the engine starting time; and means for performing a correction in accordance with the cranking time period, wherein the improvement comprises, as the means for correcting said starting basic fuel injection rate in accordance with the cranking engine speed: first engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a first engine speed at a first start of the engine; means fordeciding second later starts of the engine; and second engine speed correction coefficient setting means for setting a engine speed correction coefficient smaller than that of said first engine speed correction coefficient setting means when the second and later starts of the engine are decided by said decision means.
2. A fuel injection rate control system for starting a two-cycle engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first engine speed correction coefficient setting means comprises a first engine speed correction coefficient storaging means for preliminarily storaging a first engine speed correction coefficient corresponding to cranking engine speed, and a first engine speed correction coefficient retrieving means for retrieving a first engine speed correction coefficient storaged by said first engine speed correction coefficient storagingmeans corresponding to cranking engine speed.
3. A fuel injection rate control system for starting a two-cycle engine as set forth in claim 1, wherein the second engine speed correction coefficient setting means comprises a second engine speed correction coefficient storaging means for preliminarily storaging a second engine speed correction coefficient corresponding to cranking engine speed, and a second engine speed correction coefficient retrieving means for retrieving a second engine speed correction coefficient storaged by said second engine speed correction coefficient storaging means corresponding to cranking engine speed.
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