Ferrari S.p.a.

Giovanni Sartoni

Daniele Genova

Luca Poggio

Francesco Marcigliano

Lorenzo Laraia

Lorenzo Tombari

Matias Troncoso

Antonio Scandurra

Stefano Lugini

Simone Paolin

Roberto Betrò

A method to adjust an internal combustion engine is described, comprising the steps of: i) controlling a first and second adjustment member so as to adjust a first and second quantity of air in a first and second cylinder provided with a first and second piston; ii) operating a first and second ignition member with a first and second advance angle relative to the first and second top dead centre of the first and second piston; iii) processing a value of one of the amplitudes associated with a respective frequency of a driving member; iv) detecting that the amplitude at a corresponding desired frequency exceeds a threshold value; v) reducing the first advance angle; and vi) increasing the first quantity of air so as to maintain the average value of the resulting torque constant at two complete rotations of said driving member.

Method to adjust an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine

A road vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; an electric starter motor; a high-voltage electric circuit provided with a first storage system; a low-voltage electric circuit provided with a second storage system and directly connected to the electric starter motor; an electronic DC-DC power converter, which connects the low-voltage electric circuit and the high-voltage electric circuit to one another; and a control unit configured, in the presence of a turned-on condition of the road vehicle and when the internal combustion engine is off, to activate the electronic DC-DC power converter so as to transfer power to be at least partially supplied to the electric starter motor from the high-voltage electric circuit to the low-voltage electric circuit only in case of a cold-start condition of the internal combustion engine.

Road vehicle provided with an electronic DC-DC power converter and corresponding control method

Method for the identification of a torque delivery imbalance of an internal combustion engine equipped with two or more cylinders under constant speed operating conditions of the internal combustion engine comprising an analysis procedure in the frequency domain of a rotation speed signal of said engine so that when an amplitude of a half-order frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold, the cylinder of said two or more cylinders that causes said imbalance is identified by calculating a relative phase.

Identification and suppression system of a torque delivery imbalance of an internal combustion engine equipped with two or more cylinders

A method for detecting the anti-knocking capacity of a fuel in an internal combustion engine, which comprises the step of analyzing the single combustion cycles of the cylinders to be repeated until a counter reaches a respective threshold value; the step of calculating the mean spark advance operated by the internal combustion engine in the single combustion cycles of the cylinders that have allowed said counter to reach the respective threshold value; and the step of determining the anti-knocking capacity of the fuel as a function of the first counter that has reached the respective threshold value and as a function of the mean spark advance operated by the internal combustion engine in the single combustion cycles of the cylinders that have allowed said counter to reach the respective threshold value.

Method for detecting the anti-knocking capacity of a fuel in an internal combustion engine

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Giovanni Sartoni