Robert Boschgmbh

Michael Walter

Holger Plote

Andreas Krautter

Juergen Sojka

Joachim Palmer

Stefan Bollinger

Matthias Stegmaier

Rainer Buck

Horst Harndorf

Rainer Strohmaier

Dirk Foerstner

Thomas Zein

Nicolas Houis

Andreas Rupp

Stefan Zimmermann

Ralf Schernewski

Bjoern Bischoff

Thiebaut Beyrath

Matthias Mansbart

Udo Riegler

Andreas Kratter

Jochen Glasbrenner

Oliver Meil

Zoltan Papszt

Tobias Baier

A method for determining an average segment time of an encoder wheel of an internal combustion engine, the encoder wheel being connected in rotationally fixed fashion to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, markings being situated along the circumference of the encoder wheel, and the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine passing through specified angular ranges during segment times, segment times being acquired, associated rotational speed values being determined from the segment times, a rotational speed curve being determined from the individual determined rotational speed values, a value of the average rotational speed being determined from the rotational speed curve, and an average segment time being determined from the value of the average rotational speed.

Method for determining an average segment time of an encoder wheel of an internal combustion engine

In a method for calibrating a fuel metering system including an injector of an internal combustion engine performing a pilot injection chronologically prior to a main injection, at least two test injections chronologically prior to the pilot injection are provided for the injector, the first test injection being carried out using a first activation duration, in which the injector does not yet open, at least one second test injection being carried out in a subsequent injection cycle using an activation duration which is progressively increased in each case in relation to the first test injection until a change of an operating variable of the fuel metering system or the internal combustion engine results, which activation duration corresponds to a minimum activation duration of the injector.

Method and device for zero-fuel quantity calibration of a fuel injector

The invention relates to a method for determining a gas concentration in a measuring gas by means of a gas sensor. In a first mode of operation of an internal combustion engine, in which the gas concentration in the measuring gas is known, a gas concentration signal and a pressure signal are detected. A compensation parameter of the gas sensor is determined from said signals. The thus determined compensation parameter is taken into account in at least one of the two modes of operation of the internal combustion engine for determining the gas concentration.

Method for determining a gas concentration in a measuring gas by means of a gas sensor

A device and method for determining a temperature variable, in particular a temperature variable that characterizes the condition of an exhaust-gas treatment system of a combustion engine, are described. The temperature is specified on the basis of variables that characterize the mass flow in the exhaust-gas treatment system, and/or of a second temperature variable that characterizes the temperature upstream from the exhaust-gas treatment system.

Method and device for determining a temperature variable

A method and a device for monitoring a signal, in particular a pressure signal that characterizes the pressure differential at the input and output of an exhaust after-treatment system, are described. Errors are recognized on the basis of the occurrence of oscillations in the sensor signal.

Method and device for monitoring a signal

A method for checking at least three sensors which detect a measured quantity in the area of an internal combustion engine. A measure of the sensor signal of the particular sensor to be checked is compared to a reference signal which is obtained from at least one part of the sensor signals of the sensors to be checked. A sensor is recognized as defective on the basis of a comparison of the measure for the sensor signal with the reference signal. The reference signal is formed, for example, from a mean value of a measure of the sensor signals of at least one part of the sensors to be checked, the individual sensor signals being weighted using correction factors in forming the mean value. The sensors are temperature sensors or pressure sensors, for example, which may be situated in an intake area of the internal combustion engine, on the internal combustion engine itself, in an exhaust area, and/or in an exhaust gas treatment system.

Method for testing at least three sensors, which detect a measurable variable for an internal combustion engine

A method and a device for monitoring an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, in particular an oxidation catalytic converter, are described. An error is recognized if an operating parameter does not change as expected, when a particular operating state is present.

Method and device for monitoring an exhaust gas treatment system

A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine, in which a first quantity characterizing the flow resistance of a first component of the exhaust-gas treatment system is determined based on a first measured quantity and a volumetric-flow quantity, and the volumetric-flow quantity is determined based on a second quantity which characterizes the flow resistance of a second component of the exhaust system.

Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine

A method and a device for controlling an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, in which a first state variable characterizes the state of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system. A second state variable takes into consideration additional influences on the special operating state. A special operating state is initiated as a function of the first and the second state variable.

Method and device for controlling an exhaust gas aftertreatment system

A device and a method for monitoring a sensor for an exhaust-gas after-treatment system, in particular a temperature sensor. In specified operating states, a first signal from the first sensor to be monitored may be compared to a second signal from a second sensor. Errors may be detected when at least the two signals differ from one another by more than a value.

Method and device for monitoring a sensor

A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas aftertreatment system are described. A quantity which characterizes the state of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system is determined based on at least one characteristic operating quantity of the internal combustion engine.

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