Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-Benz Ag

Matthias Scherer

Klaus Allmendinger

Hans Braun

Gunther Alberter

Thomas Ganser

Charles Robert Koch

Hans-Hubert Hemberger

Neil Armstrong

Rudolf Wilczek

Winfried Stiltz

Martin Hart

Robert Loisch

Lino Guzella

Hans Hubert Hemberger

A sensor arrangement and engine management device for a combustion engine, the engine management device including the sensor arrangement for detecting variables indicative of engine load, a mechanism for determining engine load on the basis of measured values supplied by the sensor, as well as a throttle-valve position control loop. At least two of the sensors of the sensor arrangement, which may include a mass air-flow sensor, an intake-air temperature sensor, an induction-pipe pressure sensor, and a throttle-valve position sensor, are microintegrated in a modular unit. The engine management device is made such that a sensor device with the at least two sensors, the mechanism for determining, engine load and/or the throttle-valve position controller used in the throttle-valve position control loop are microintegrated in a modular unit. The engine management device can be used, for example, for controlling a spark ignition engine in a motor vehicle.

Sensor arrangement and engine management device for a combustion engine

The invention provides for a method and device for determining a gas pressure and temperature in a hollow space, including a fuel/air mix in an internal combustion engine combustion chamber. According to the invention, pressure and temperature are detected by means of a measuring element ( ) of an ultrasound transducer/pressure sensor combined unit, said measuring element acting both as a pressure measuring element and an ultrasound transducer element to determine temperature. Therefor, said measuring element can be operated at given moments, on one hand as a pressure measuring element and on the other hand as an ultrasound transducer element or continuously, as a pressure measuring element, and furthermore as an ultra-sound transducer element superimposed with the latter. In that case, it is provided that signals should be conveniently separated for the measuring element output signal. The invention can be used, for instance, to determine air volumes for car internal combustion engines.

Method and device for determining gas pressure and temperature in an hollow space

An electronic engine control system for an internal-combustion engine has a computer with programs stored therein and interacts with a sensor system to determine a residual gas fraction in a combustion space of the engine. The engine control system generates a signal value, which correlates with the current residual gas fraction, from a signal value which is generated by the engine control system and which correlates with a current air/fuel mass ratio of a carbureted fuel fed to the combustion space, and from a signal value which is sensed by the sensor system and which correlates with a current air/fuel mass ratio of an exhaust gas discharged from the combustion space after the combustion.

Electronic engine control system

A method for setting the torque in an internal combustion engine determines a set air mass and a corresponding throttle valve setting from a set torque in a control tract. An actual air mass allows the difference between a set air mass and the actual air mass to be determined by comparing a set value and the actual value. The controlling effort for setting a desired torque will be reduced. A correction value for the difference between the actual and set values of the air mass is calculated whereby an adaptation of the control tract to the difference is performed. Thereby, in the control tract, a correspondingly adapted throttle valve position will then be associated with a set torque that is to be established. A compensation of the previously determined difference between the set value and the actual value of the air mass is produced. An actual fuel mass fed to the combustion chambers can be utilized for determining the actual air mass, as can a fuel/air mass ratio of a mixture fed to the combustion chambers.

Method for setting torque in an internal combustion engine

In a measuring arrangement for determining the lift of a valve including a cylindrical valve stem member arranged in overlapping telescopic relationship with a stationary cylindrical member so as to be movable relative thereto, one of the cylindrical members has on its surface adjacent the other cylindrical member first and third capacitor structures which are axially spaced, and insulated from, each other and the other is provided on its surface adjacent the one cylindrical member with a second capacitor structure extending axially over the first and third capacitor structures when the valve is in a closed position, all the capacitor structures being electrically connected to a control unit for determining from the capacitance difference between the first and third capacitor structures the position of the valve member.

Measuring arrangement for determining the lift of a valve member

The invention provides a process and an apparatus for controlling the engine torque of an internal-combustion engine. A dynamic desired torque component is determined from a demanded desired engine torque, and is used to determine a corresponding displacement of the ignition point or of the injection start, while a remaining quasi-static desired torque component is regulated by a corresponding adjustment of the air flow rate or of the fuel injection duration.

Process and apparatus for adjusting the torque of an interal-combustion

The invention provides a device for determining the engine load for an internal combustion engine, such device having an input channel for receiving an item of engine speed information, as well as an intake manifold pressure sensor and an air mass flow rate sensor arranged upstream of a throttle valve, and/or a throttle valve angle sensor. The engine speed is fed to a Kalman filter as an input value and at least one of the three variables intake manifold pressure, throttle-valve air mass flow rate and throttle valve angle is fed as a variable measured by the respective sensor. The Kalman filter derives estimated values for the variables intake manifold pressure and throttle-valve air mass flow rate, with which the air mass flowing into a respective cylinder of the engine per working cycle is determined.

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Esslingen, Germany

Matthias Scherer