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US 10,308,103 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkihiro Kaneko
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Abstract
A feed pump supplies fuel to a port injection valve of an engine through low pressure fuel piping by applying a pressure to fuel. An engine ECU controls a fuel pressure which is a pressure applied to fuel by driving the feed pump. When the feed pump is driven to lower the fuel pressure, and it is determined that vapor is generated in the fuel piping, the engine ECU executes a fuel pressure control that increases the fuel pressure provided at the time of determination.
Claims4
A vehicle comprising:
- a combustion engine;
- a pump configured to supply fuel to a fuel injection valve of the combustion engine through fuel piping by applying a pressure to fuel;
- an electronic control unit configured to control a fuel pressure which is a pressure applied to fuel by driving the pump;
- and
- a fuel pressure sensor configured to detect the fuel pressure,
- when the pump is driven to lower the fuel pressure and it is determined that vapor is generated in the fuel piping, the electronic control unit executing a fuel pressure limitation control that increases the fuel pressure provided at the time of the determination, wherein
- the fuel pressure limitation control increases the fuel pressure by performing a lower limit guard control that controls the fuel pressure such that the fuel pressure always becomes greater than a predetermined value,
- the predetermined value is a value which is obtained by adding a predetermined pressure to an actual fuel pressure obtained by the fuel pressure sensor at the time when it is determined that the vapor is generated,
- the electronic control unit is configured to:
- stop the fuel pressure limitation control when an elapsed time from determination of generation of the vapor exceeds a predetermined time period;
- and
- maintain the predetermined value in the predetermined time period from starting of the fuel pressure limitation control.
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