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- Patent Title: Method and system for characterizing a port fuel injector
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Application No.: US15592078Application Date: 2017-05-10
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Publication No.: US10760518B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Ross Dykstra Pursifull , Adithya Pravarun Re Ranga , Gopichandra Surnilla
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Agent Geoffrey Brumbaugh
- Main IPC: F02D41/24
- IPC: F02D41/24 ; F02D41/30 ; F02D41/38 ; F02D41/20 ; F02D13/02

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for calibrating engine port injectors. After pressurizing a low pressure fuel rail, a lift pump may be disabled and port injector variability may be correlated with a measured fuel rail pressure drop at each port injection event by sweeping injection pressure while maintaining injection voltage, and then sweeping injection voltage while maintaining injection pressure. A port injector variability map learned as a function of injection voltage and injection pressure is then transformed into a map learned as a function of injection current and injection pressure by accounting for injector variability caused due to changes in injector temperature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180328304A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A PORT FUEL INJECTOR Public/Granted day:2018-11-15
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