Continental Automotive Gmbh

Continental Automotive France

Vitesco Technologies Gmbh

Nicolas Girard

Yves Agnus

Tet Kong Brian Chia

Damien Verdier

Jérémie Memain

Renaud Andre

George Weaver

Fabien Constans

A method for supplying power to a heating device for a motor vehicle is described, in which the motor vehicle includes: a) an electric network; b) a catalytic converter including an electric heating device connected to the electric network; c) a battery electrically connected to the electric network; and d) an electric machine electrically connected to the electric network. The method includes: a) detecting a request for activation of the heating device; b) activating the generator mode of the electric machine; c) sending a voltage delivery instruction to the electric machine in order to supply the electric network with power; d) detecting a request for deactivation of the heating device; and e) deactivating the generator mode of the electric machine and a step of disconnecting the heating device.

Method for powering a heating device for a catalytic converter

Disclosed is a method for optimizing the time gradient of the pressure increase in a fuel injection system of a hybrid motor vehicle. The method determines and uses the engine torque generated by the electric machine of the vehicle to reduce the engine torque generated by the internal combustion engine of the vehicle and allow the high-pressure pump of the internal combustion engine to generate, if applicable, a higher value of the time gradient of the pressure increase in the common supply chamber of its injection system.

Method for optimising the time gradient of the pressure increase in an injection system of a hybrid motor vehicle

A method for monitoring a pressure sensor in a direct injection system including at least one common rail, a high-pressure fuel pump, a hydraulic circuit connecting the high-pressure pump to the common rail, a passive pressure-limiting valve connected to the hydraulic circuit, configured to open once the pressure in the hydraulic circuit is greater than a threshold pressure, so as to discharge the fuel, including the steps of detecting the opening of the pressure-limiting valve, measuring the pressure Pcorresponding to the time of opening of the pressure-limiting valve and comparing the measured pressure Pto the threshold pressure Pin order to detect a drift in the pressure sensor.

Method for monitoring a pressure sensor in a direct injection system

Disclosed is a method for the diagnosis of a digital valve in a fuel injection system. In the diagnosis, a diagnosis current is applied to the digital valve with an intensity and for a hold time that are predetermined by experiment on digital valves identified as being fault-free, this intensity and this time being recognized as being sufficient for an inflection on a curve of the closing current to be detected in the hold time. Measurements are taken at more than 3 kHz of the diagnosis current added to the induced current in the hold time. When an inflection on the current curve is detected in this hold time, it is concluded that the valve is working correctly. When no inflection on the curve is detected in this hold time, it is concluded that the valve is faulty.

Method for diagnosing a digital flow-control valve of a high-pressure fuel injection pump

A method for controlling a digital high-pressure pump, the control method including the following consecutive steps when the internal combustion engine does not manage to start during the starting procedure: checking the external parameters of the internal combustion engine; measuring a physical parameter at the high-pressure output, applying an electrical detachment control signal as a replacement for the electrical control signal to the high-pressure pump during the starting procedure when the physical parameter measured at the high-pressure output is less than or equal to a reference value, and stopping the starting procedure after a given time when the physical parameter measured at the high-pressure output is greater than the reference value.

Method for controlling a digital high-pressure pump

Disclosed is a method for estimating an angular position of top dead center for a high-pressure fuel injection pump that forms part of a system for injecting fuel into a motor vehicle engine, the pump including at least one piston moving in a chamber between the top and the bottom dead center, the pump being equipped with a digital control valve for controlling a quantity of fuel, an electrical current being applied to the digital valve as it closes then removed in order to open the digital valve, a movement of the digital valve in the direction of opening creating an induced current which makes it possible to detect a position of start-of-opening of the digital valve. An instant at which the pump piston passes through top dead center is estimated as a function of an instant at which the position of start-of-opening of the digital valve appears.

Method for estimating a top dead centre for a high-pressure pump of a fuel injection system in an automotive vehicle engine

A method for checking the operation of a high-pressure fuel supply unit for an internal combustion engine, consisting in driving a high-pressure fuel injection pump by a starter, and after the engine is synchronised and fuel injection into the cylinders is shut off, in defining an initial base pressure in a high-pressure rail, in activating the injection pump by issuing successive timing and angle-setting commands, on the basis of the initial pressure, and in comparing the first pressure and the second pressure obtained in the rail by these timing and angle-setting commands, and/or by comparing at least one of the pressures with a reference pressure in order to check the operation of the high-pressure fuel supply unit for the internal combustion engine.

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Carbonne, France

Nicolas Girard