Continental Automotive Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Continental Automotive France

Andreas Läufer

Gerhard Eser

Carsten Bruns

Franz Dietl

Christian Borgmann

Konstantin Thiveos

Valérie Gouzenne

Balaji Jayaraman

In a control method suitable for an internal combustion engine () of a motor vehicle with an automatic engine cut-off and starting system () by which the internal combustion engine () can be cut off and started independently from the driver of the motor vehicle, the starting of the internal combustion engine () is detected and a variable determined, which represents a measure for the work performed by the internal combustion engine () since it has been started. The cut-off of the internal combustion engine () is controlled by the automatic engine cut-off and starting system () according to the variable.

Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine with an automatic engine cut-off and starting system

In a method for determining, whether a crankshaft of a combustion engine rotating forward after a reverse rotation is oscillating or continues the forward movement, when noticing a reverse rotation of the crankshaft, the covered rotational angle during a reverse rotation is detected, an actual threshold is computed by adding the covered rotational angle and a predetermined safety distance. The rotational angle of the crankshaft rotating immediately forward after a reverse rotation is compared to the actual threshold.

Method for determining whether a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine rotating forward after a reverse rotation is oscillating or continues the forward movement

A method and a device for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine (ICE) have a control device to which operating parameters of the drive and parameters influencing the driving operation of the motor vehicle are supplied. On the basis of these parameters the control device enables or terminates the implementation of fuel consumption reduction measures (STST) if specific parameter constellations are present. During the operation of the vehicle the number and/or the duration the possible fuel consumption reduction measures and fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out are/is determined and the number and/or the duration of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures and the number and/or the duration of the fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out are/is correlated. From this, a variable (R) is determined which represents a measure for the implementation of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures.

Method and device for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle

A method for monitoring a driver output has is provision for actively influencing the driver output in order to perform fault analysis. To avoid a component addressed by the driver being influenced as a result of the active influencing of the driver output although no fault or only a sporadic fault has occurred, provision is made in accordance with the invention for active influencing of the driver output only to occur when a fault state has occurred at the driver output for a specified period of time.

Growing community of inventors

Wuppertal, Germany

Andreas Läufer