Control method for dual injector of engine
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorMin-Kyu Han
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Abstract
A method for controlling a plurality of injectors installed in the same cylinder of an engine may include determining whether an electrical failure occurred in any of the injectors, and entering a fail-safe mode when an electrical failure has occurred only in one of the plurality of injectors in the same cylinder. In the fail-safe mode, fuel supply to an injector that has experienced an electrical failure is cut off, and the amount of fuel injected into the cylinder by a normally operating injector is increased.
Claims6
A method for controlling a plurality of injectors installed in a cylinder of an engine for supplying fuel to the cylinder, the cylinder requiring an amount of fuel to be injected by the injectors, the method comprising:
- determining whether an electrical failure has occurred in any injector of the plurality of injectors;
- and
- entering a fail-safe mode when an electrical failure has occurred in one of the plurality of injectors,
- wherein in the fail-safe mode fuel supply is cut off to the injector that has experienced an electrical failure, and an amount of fuel injected into the cylinder by a normally operating injector is increased, and
- wherein entering the fail-safe mode further comprises:
- determining the cause of the electrical failure;
- and
- depending on the cause of the electrical failure, deciding whether to cut off the fuel supply to the injector that has experienced an electrical failure and to perform injection control for that injector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.