Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
Patent
1993-04-26
1994-08-02
Cross, E. Rollins
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
123198D, F02M 3302
Patent
active
053335902
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a system for detecting leaks in the evaporative emission control system utilized in automotive vehicles. Such control systems include a carbon filled canister having both a vent port and a fuel vapor port. The fuel vapor port, as well as a vapor line from the fuel tank, are connected through a purge valve to the intake manifold of the internal combustion engine. The present invention includes a vent valve which is fluidly connected with the canister vent port. An electronic control system closes both the vent valve and opens the purge valve thereby exposing the evaporative emission control system to the partial vacuum in the intake manifold. After a predetermined time period, the purge valve is closed thus entrapping the partial vacuum in the purge system while a pressure transducer thereafter monitors the partial vacuum in the purge system. Changes in the partial vacuum over a time period, after correction by extraneous factors such as temperature and fuel volume in the fuel tank, greater than a threshold amount indicates a leak in the evaporative emission system. When this occurs, the system generates a fault signal to alert the vehicle operator of the leak.
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Cross E. Rollins
Moulis Thomas N.
Pilot Industries, Inc.
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