Starting Control for Fuel Injection Systems

The invention relates to a starting control for fuel injection systems. In known starting controls a mixture is made available during the warming up period which is richer than that subsequent to the achievement of a determined operating temperature. Below a predetermined speed threshold, an additionally increased enrichment of the mixture can be effected which, when the speed threshold is exceeded, suddenly passes into another starting characteristic line which is appropriate for the enrichment of the mixture. Such a discontinuous transition can be particularly disruptive precisely in the warming up phase.

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved starting control for fuel injection systems, the advantage of which resides in that, in the starting phase, a continuous transition from the variable starting factor, which determines the injection quantity or the injection duration in the starting phase, can be effected at performance characteristics provided for normal operation, from which performance characteristics the injection time for normal operation can be derived as a function of the speed and throttle valve angle. A continuous comparison takes place between the two calculated injection times so that a smooth transition can take place from the special starting characteristic line to the aforementioned performance characteristics.

The starting factor can also be determined by means of comparing two factors, one of which is dependent on time, while the other is dependent on speed. The smaller of the two factors is transmitted as a starting factor by means of a comparator. In addition, these two factors are dependent on the engine starting temperature with respect to their initial value, wherein a reduction of the initial value of the starting injection time can be effected as the engine starting temperature increases. A favorable adaptation of the injection quantity to the respective operating state of the engine can be effected in this manner.

The novel features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in particular in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, both as to its construction and its method of operation, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an operational diagram of the starting control; and

FIG. 2 shows a section of the starting control shown in FIG. 1.

In the top part, the operational diagram shown in FIG. 1 contains performance characteristics KF, known per se, which give a basic injection time t1.sub.KF as a function of the speed n and the throttle valve angle .alpha.. This value is processed further in order to determine the injection duration, wherein an evaluation can be effected with various factors as a function of the respective engine operating state. For example, an additional warming up factor F.sub.WL can be taken into consideration in the warming up phase so that a value te.sub.KF can be fed to the first input of a comparator 1 from the respective basic injection value t1.sub.KF. A value te.sub.STA, which is derived from special starting characteristic lines by means of multiplication by a quantization factor t1.sub.STA, is fed to the other input of the comparator 1. The greater of the two values te.sub.KF, te.sub.STA is transmitted to the device for determining the injection duration t.sub.i or the injection quantity at the output of the comparator 1 as injection time te.sub.VER.

In order to determine the value te.sub.STA two starting characteristic lines 2, 3 are provided which give two factors F.sub.S1, F.sub.S2 to a comparator 4 which switches the smaller of the two factors through to the multiplier 5 at the output side.

The starting characteristic lines 2, 3 with the comparator 4 are shown more clearly in FIG. 2. The starting characteristic line 2 begins, as a function of the engine starting temperature T.sub.MS, at an initial value F.sub.San and decreases in a stepwise manner by time t. With respect to its initial value, the first factor F.sub.S1, resulting from this characteristic line 2, is dependent on the engine temperature and, otherwise, on the time. The second factor F.sub.S2, which follows from the characteristic line 3, is likewise dependent on the engine temperature T.sub.MS with respect to its initial value and decreases as the speed n increases. The comparator 4 switches the smaller of the two factors F.sub.S1, F.sub.S2 through to its output and accordingly to the multiplier 5. The multiplication which is effected can be effected with a quantization factor t1.sub.STA =1.024 ms, for example.

The stepwise time curve of the first factor F.sub.S1 can be obtained in that the initial value F.sub.San is multiplied in constant time intervals by a factor which is slightly less than 1. The product resulting from the multiplication can then be periodically multiplied by the same factor.