The invention provides a fuel injection control device for an internal
combustion engine that can improve the accuracy of combustion control
regarding smoke suppression. The fuel injection control device is applied
to an engine provided with an EGR device for returning, as a part of an
intake gas flown into the cylinder, an EGR gas, withdrawn from an exhaust
passage, to an air intake passage. The amount of oxygen OXM contained in
the intake gas and the concentration of oxygen OXC contained in the
intake gas are detected (steps S1 and S2). The smoke tolerable limit
value QOXMLMT as the upper limit of the amount of fuel injection, which
can suppress the amount of smoke generated in the engine to a
predetermined tolerance range, is set based on the detected amount of
oxygen and concentration of oxygen (step S4), and, when the required
amount of injection QDMD determined based on operation conditions is
larger than the tolerable limit value QOXMLMT, the instructional
injection amount QFIN is limited to the tolerable limit value QOXMLMT.