Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
Patent
1995-10-26
1997-03-11
Miller, Carl S.
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
123357, F02M 3704
Patent
active
056091427
ABSTRACT:
A fuel-vapor treatment method and apparatus for an internal combustion engine, wherein when the density of fuel vapor emitted directly from a fuel tank is higher than the density of fuel vapor emitted from a canister, provisions are made to prevent the density of the mixture of these vapors purged into an intake passage from varying substantially, thereby suppressing perturbations in air-fuel ratio. When purge execution time becomes long, the energization of a solenoid valve used to control the amount of purge gas from the canister is limited to keep the maximum/minimum amount of purge gas or the amount of change thereof within a prescribed range. This serves to suppress the variation in purge gas amount, and hence the variation in vapor density, that may occur during a transition from idling to driving (in the increasing direction of the purge gas amount) or during a transition from driving to idling (in the decreasing direction of the purge gas amount).
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Miller Carl S.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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