Patent ID: 8720412

Claim:
A control apparatus for a direct injection type internal combustion engine having a fuel injection valve that injects fuel into a combustion chamber by controlling a drive current based on an injection pulse width and a fuel rail that stores fuel supplied to the fuel injection valve, wherein: the fuel is injected according to a split multi-stage injection control that carries out plural fuel injections in which at least the first injection is performed during an intake stroke, intervals, between fuel injections split plural times, are set to have a time duration that is based on at least a fuel pressure in the fuel rail that is necessary to suppress the increase of penetration, and when an injection pulse width of the first injection is short, an injection timing of the first injection is set based on the injection pulse width of the first injection so that the injection timing of the first injection is more advanced as compared with a case of a longer injection pulse width of the first injection.