Robert Boschgmbh

Rainer Buck

Wolf Wessel

Gerhard Stumpp

Albrecht Sieber

Thomas Kuttner

Hermann Kull

Fridolin Piwonka

Dirk Foerstner

Friedrich Boecking

Kurt Frank

Werner Fischer

Matthias Schueler

Gerhard Engel

Dirk Samuelsen

Jens Damitz

Odon Kopse

Ruediger Fehrmann

Wilfried Sautter

Michael Walter

Eduard Moser

Wilhelm Blumendeller

Juergen Sojka

Michael Scheidt

Alf Loffler

Nestor R Amaya

Volker Schafer

Frank Ahlborn

Wolfgang Duhlmeyer

Matthias Stegmaier

Martin Schacherer

Herbert Kaberer

Andreas Kratter

A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine make it possible to monitor a temperature sensor or a lambda sensor in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine for functionality in the entire operating range of the internal combustion engine. To that end, the plausibility of the signal of the temperature sensor is checked with a signal of the lambda sensor for a predetermined relationship.

Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine

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

Provided are a method and device for operating an internal combustion engine having exhaust-gas recirculation, the method and device allowing a diagnosis of an exhaust-gas recirculation cooler during normal operation of the internal combustion engine. In this context, a variable characteristic of the functioning of the exhaust-gas recirculation cooler is monitored. The variable characteristic of the functioning of the cooling device is ascertained as a function of a measured value. The variable characteristic of the functioning of the exhaust-gas recirculation cooler is specified on the basis of an intact exhaust-gas recirculation cooler. The ascertained value of the variable characteristic of the functioning of the exhaust-gas recirculation cooler is compared to the predefined value. An error is detected when the ascertained value of the variable characteristic of the function of cooling device deviates from the specified value.

Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine having exhaust-gas recirculation

A method and a device for storing and/or reading out data of a fuel metering system, in particular a fuel pump or an injector, as described. Data on the fuel pump and/or the injector is assigned to at least one electronic component. The data is taken into account by a control unit in controlling the fuel metering system. The component is mechanically and/or electrically connected to the control unit during a first interval of time and is mechanically and/or electrically detached from the control unit and/or the fuel metering unit during a second interval of time.

Method and device for storing and/or reading out data of a fuel metering system

A method and an apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine are described. At least one sensor serves to detect a first variable that characterizes the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder. A second variable, which characterizes the maximum value of the change and/or the location of the maximum value of the change, is determined on the basis of this first variable. This second variable serves to control operating parameters of the internal combustion engine in an open-loop and/or a closed-loop manner.

Method and apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine

A common rail injector is proposed which offers great freedom in designing the course of the preinjection main injection and of the injection pressure. Moreover, it offers improved security against leaks into the combustion chamber, caused for instance by a leaking nozzle needle valve seat.

Injector for a common rail fuel injection system, with shaping of the injection course

in a fuel injection valve having a valve body, having a control pressure chamber that is disposed inside the valve body and is closed at one end by an actuating part, which is for an injector needle and can be moved in the control pressure chamber between a closed position and an open position, having an inlet into the control pressure chamber, and having an outlet from the control pressure chamber that is controlled by a control valve, the opening speed of the injector needle should be increased. To this end, the mouth opening of the inlet into the control pressure chamber is disposed so that it is at least partially closed by the actuating part when the actuating part moves from the closed position into the open position.

Fuel injection valve

Electronic control device for controlling the fuel quantity of an

In a safety and emergency driving control method and an associated arrangement for an internal combustion engine with self-ignition used to power a motor vehicle, various operating parameters of the engine are continuously monitored and respective signals indicative of gas pedal position, engine operating speed, brake actuation, and actual control rod displacement are generated and evaluated to determine simultaneous occurrence of a modified idling operation condition and of a predetermined minimum value of the actual control rod displacement signal. In response to such a simultaneous occurrence the engine control is switched over to another regulation branch which controls the control rod displacement in accordance with a minimum value characteristic line of the control rod displacement. Further peripheral devices are included for providing starting hysteresis and excess speed protection, and for supervising the operation of the control rod displacement sensor. A supervisory device associated with a main computer of the arrangement may also be used to achieve the switch-over independently ofexternal signals.

Safety and emergency driving method for an internal combustion engine

An automatic control for an adjustable turbosupercharger in the air supply of an internal combustion engine adds a static anticipatory control signal and a dynamic anticipatory control signal to the error signal that is provided to an actuating mechanism for the control of the supercharger. The error signal is obtained by comparing actual charging pressure with a reference charging pressure for one portion of the control displacement and in the other portion of the control displacement the error signal is obtained by comparing actual air quantity supplied to an engine cylinder with a reference air quantity. This results from a limiting device interposed in the charging pressure control loop. The static anticipatory control depends on engine speed and engine load and is supplied with additive corrections for engine temperature and for battery voltage. A limit value dependent upon engine speed is introduced through a minimum circuit to put a lower limit on the sum of error signal and static anticipatory control and the resulting signal is then added to a dynamic anticipatory control and derived from rate of control displacement. The control signal is also interrupted during the engine start period.

System for control of the supercharging of an internal combustion engine

The air charge pressure sensor of the control system for a turbo supercharger of an internal combustion engine measures absolute charge pressure, but is used, in the idling condition of the engine, to measure atmospheric pressure, which is stored when the engine is idling for deriving the relative charge pressure for the control system.

Control system for air charge pressure in an internal combustion engine

Disclosed a regulating device for a fuel volume adjuster of a self-igniting internal combustion engine. In order to damp jerking movements resulting at different power transmissions, a signal corresponding to the actual rotary speed of the engine is fed back into an electronic regulating circuit. Preferably, the feedback path includes a phase shifter. It is essential that the regulating action of the rotary speed be not delayed by the phase turning shifter. For this purpose, the electronic regulating circuit includes a PI stage and the fed back signal is applied to the regulating circuit only after its I-constituent has become effective.

Regulating arrangement for fuel adjusting means for a self-igniting

An electronic control device is proposed for a Diesel fuel metering system, in which at the onset of the starting procedure, a constant fuel quantity is pre-specified at first, and this quantity subsequently increases in steps or in a ramp-like manner. Above a predetermined rpm or starting quantity, an rpm-dependent reduction in quantity takes place, to 90% of the full-load quantity. The open-loop or closed-loop control of the starting quantity ends upon the attainment of a speed of 800 rpm, for example. Both an analog and a computerized realization of the control device are provided, and the control device according to the invention is capable of dispensing with the processing of a temperature signal and can thus dispense with the use of one temperature sensor.

Electronic control device for a fuel metering system of an internal

The invention is directed to a safety arrangement for an internal combustion engine having self-ignition where, in the sense of an overall system monitoring, specific signals relating to the operating conditions of the internal combustion engine are continuously monitored. These signals are indicative, for example, of the position of the throttle pedal, the computed rack-travel nominal or desired value, and the rotational speed. The monitored signals are processed and a corrected rack-travel nominal value is generated by means of a minimum-value selection circuit. The corrected rack-travel nominal value signal generated in this manner is fed to the rack controller of an EDC unit. At the same time, a deviation in rack travel is determined utilizing the corrected rack travel nominal value in combination with an actual-value signal of the rack travel fed back from the rack-travel sensor. The signal indicative of actual rack travel also serves for a comparison with the upper and lower limits of the rack-travel sensor voltage; and, depending on the error condition occurring, either the output stage of the rack controller is de-energized and/or the fuel-injection pump is simultaneously shut off by means of an electrical shutoff valve (ELAB); or, a decision for an emergency operation is made.

Safety arrangement for an internal combustion engine

A method and an apparatus are proposed for controlling the quantity of exhaust gas recirculated from the exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine to its intake side. The aspirated air quantity is compared with a set-point value formed in accordance with load and rpm, and if the deviation is greater than a minimum amount, control pulses for two magnetic valves are formed, which are triggered alternatively depending upon the polarity of the deviation and which further cause pressure to be delivered from two pressure sources having different pressure levels into the work chamber of a pneumatically functioning adjusting member of a dosing valve for exhaust gas recirculation. The opening duration of a given valve is dependent on the magnitude of the deviation from the set-point, and the valve remains completely open until a counteracting correction takes place if the deviation from the set-point exceeds a predetermined maximum amount. The control pulses formed in the range between a minimum and a maximum deviation from the set-point are carried further to the magnetic valves after the elapse of a predetermined waiting period (T.sub.W). The waiting period may be made dependent on rpm.

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