发明名称 Approach for controlling fuel flow with alternative fuels
摘要 Fuel systems for supplying fuel to an engine are described. In one example, fuel is evacuated from a fuel rail upon vehicle shut-off by directing fuel from a fuel pump to provide a motive flow for an ejector to pump fuel from the fuel rail to a fuel tank.
申请公布号 US9441597(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.09.13
申请号 US201012790657 申请日期 2010.05.28
申请人 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 发明人 Pursifull Ross Dykstra
分类号 F02M43/00;F02M63/02 主分类号 F02M43/00
代理机构 Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP 代理人 Voutyras Julia;Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
主权项 1. A method for a vehicle fuel delivery system comprising an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder having a piston, the internal combustion engine further having valved fuel injectors comprising: opening a first solenoid valve positioned downstream of a first fuel pump and upstream of a port of a fuel rail, closing a second solenoid valve positioned downstream of an ejector and upstream of a first tank, adjusting a state of a third three-way solenoid valve positioned upstream of the port of the fuel rail, downstream of the first fuel pump, and downstream of a second fuel pump to direct a first fuel from the first tank to the port of the fuel rail via a passage in a first direction during a first mode, the first pump operating and the second pump not operating during the first mode; closing the first and second valves and adjusting the state of the third valve to direct a second fuel from a second tank to the port of the fuel rail via the passage in the first direction during a second mode, the second pump operating and the first pump not operating during the second mode; and closing the first valve, opening the second valve, and adjusting the state of the third valve to direct whichever fuel is in the fuel rail from the port of the fuel rail via the passage in a second direction, opposite the first direction, to the first tank during a vehicle shut-off condition, the first pump operating and the second pump not operating during the vehicle shut-off condition.
地址 Dearborn MI US