Firma Atlas Fahrzeugtechnik Gmbh

Manfred Knuefelmann

Burkhard Brandner

Reinhold Blauhut

Dieter Stojek

Andreas Stwiorok

A device for the angular adjustment of a camshaft of a combustion engine according to speed and load conditions and to the angular position of the camshaft with respect to a driving wheel being controlled by an adjustable mechanism. The technical problem is the angular adjustment of the single or multiple camshafts with respect to the crankshaft according to speed and load conditions. Tooth pulses, or counting pulses, corresponding to the angular position of the crankshaft (2) and reference pulses corresponding to a particular angular reference position (singular tooth) are generated by a transducer, or pulse generator, controlled by the toothed ring associated with the crankshaft and the ignition circuit (13). An address counter (10) is reset by the reference pulses and incremented by the tooth pulses so that the output of the counter provides digital address signals corresponding to the actual angular position of the crankshaft (2). The output signals of the address counter and digital signals corresponding to load conditions are input to a correction processor with memory, (20) the output of which provides a camshaft adjustment signal. During pre-set engine operational periods, a buffer memory ( 21), controlled by the tooth-pulse time base signal, stores an adjustment signal used as a camshaft correcting variable, which is then delayed under asynchronous clocking and fed into an electromechanical control device (FIG. 3) which effects a rotary-then-linear displacement of a control member (31) and subsequently an angular corresponding displacement of the camshaft(s) to the correcting variable.

Device for camshaft control

Circuit for generating a trigger pulse delayed within a period of a periodical motion of variable periodic time, the phase lag relative to a zero phase being dependent on the periodic time and other parameters, a zero pulse and angle pulses starting at zero 5 phase being generated, the pulse frequency being inversely proportional to the periodic time, the angle pulses being fed into a counter and correcting data being generated within every period during a constant-time window. The technical problem the invention relates to is to design the circuit so that a single sequence of angle pulses may be evaluated and no control pulses are necessary except a reference pulse for defining a reference phase. According to the invention the following solution to the problem is proposed: during a constant-time window the angle pulses are varied under control so that each single pulse may be duplicated, counted normally, or suppressed. In this way correcting pulses according to individual characteristics may be generated during the time window.

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Duesseldorf, Germany

Manfred Knuefelmann