Background:
The vehicle fuel injector directly affects the power performance, emission characteristics and
economic efficiency of the engine. At present, several testing standards are stipulated on accurate measurement of the
working characteristics of fuel injectors.
Objective:
The purpose of this study is to provide an efficient patent about the method and system for testing the working
characteristics of vehicle fuel injector.
Methods:
Two key techniques are significant to establish the standard test environment. The patent about the pressure
control approach and injector driving method was proposed. The adaptive fuzzy PID approach is applied in pressure
control. An adaptive multi-functional driver was designed and developed for both the voltage-driven and current-driven
port fuel injectors.
Results:
The experiments on the two key technologies were operated. During the dynamic flow test, the settling time
using the system was 1ms. For the static flow test, the settling time was 1 s. The maximum changing rate of the pressure
fluctuation was 1%. Then the system was verified by test on the flow characteristics and dynamic response of the voltagedriven and current-driven injectors. The linear deviation of each dynamic flow curve is between ± 3% to ± 6%.
Furthermore, the deviation of the dynamic flow curves from the repeated test is small. The maximum deviation of the
static flow results is less than 4%. And the dynamic response of the injector varies with the change of the pressure.
Conclusion:
The system meets the requirements of the related standards. The experimental results prove that the system is
stable and reliable.