Robert Boschgmbh

Athanasios Hailas

Dieter Thoss

Joern Beckmann

Ralf Klewin

Armin Sayer

A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine using at least two control units. One engine rotation is divided into a predefined number of subsegments of equal length. One or a plurality of subsegments are able to be combined in each case into one segment. Control data are calculated in all subsegments. Each control unit outputs the control data once per segment.

Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine

A method and a device for detecting mispolarization in a signal transducer is described, with which the output signal of the signal transducer&mdash;that has at least one singularity&mdash;is converted into a square-wave signal. Intervals between specifiable signal-level changes are monitored in the region of the singularity, or plausibility windows are set, within which specifiable events must occur. If the intervals do not correspond to the expected intervals, or if specifiable events do not occur within the specifiable time windows or plausibility windows, mispolarization is detected. The method for detecting mispolarization is used, for example, in the case of a signal transducer having a plurality of uniform angular points and one reference point, but it is not limited to such transducers.

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Esslingen, Germany

Athanasios Hailas