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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2023
Maserati S.p.a., Modena, IT;
Marco Fabbri, Modena, IT;
Filippo Carra, Sant'Agata Bolognese, IT;
Lorenzo Paolucci, Ferrara, IT;
Simone Ferrante, Modena, IT;
Francesco Marcigliano, Modena, IT;
Maserati S.p.A., Modena, IT;
Abstract
In a gasoline internal combustion engine having a first and second spark plugs for each cylinder, associated, respectively, with a combustion pre-chamber and with a combustion chamber, engine crank angle of ignition (ECAI) of the first and second spark plugs are controlled as a function of engine load and engine rotation speed, and as a function of a required value of torque delivered by the engine, referring to a single normalized reference surface, which is the same for any operating point of the engine, and which supplies efficiency of the engine as a function of a difference between ECAI of the first spark plug and an optimal value of this angle at which the efficiency becomes maximum, and as a function of a difference between the ECAI of the second spark plug and an optimal value of this angle at which the efficiency becomes maximum.