Patent ID: 8646439

Claim:
A fuel injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine including: a fuel injector having a leading end portion that has an internal space in which fuel is accumulated and an injection port for injecting fuel; and an adsorbent disposed in the internal space, the adsorbent being capable of selectively adsorbing an alcohol component in a blended fuel of gasoline and alcohol, the adsorbent having a characteristic that an adsorbed amount of alcohol is small when a fuel pressure is low and large when the fuel pressure is high, the fuel injection apparatus comprising: means for determining whether or not there is a request for bringing the internal combustion engine to a stop; means for determining whether or not the fuel pressure is higher than a predetermined low fuel pressure when it is determined that there is the request; means for keeping the fuel pressure at the low fuel pressure for a predetermined period of time when it is determined that the fuel pressure is higher than the low fuel pressure; and means for bringing the internal combustion engine to a stop after a lapse of the predetermined period of time.