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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1994
Joerg Lange, Eberdingen, DE;
Heinz Stutzenberger, Vaihingen, DE;
Thomas Lehmann, Oberriexingen, DE;
Christian Koehler, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a method and device for the open-loop control of an internal-combustion engine, the change in the torque caused by an influencing of the ignition angle is compensated for by a correspondingly adjusted influencing of the air inducted by the internal-combustion engine. Thus, the accelerator-pedal characteristic is hardly influenced in the case of a change in the ignition angle. The method and device can be used, for example, to accelerate the heating up of a catalytic converter after start-up of the internal-combustion engine. To reinforce the heating operation and to reduce emission, an intervention in the air/fuel ratio can be made at the same time, and a switching signal can be produced, for example, for a secondary air pump. The air inducted by the internal-combustion engine is generally influenced by an idle-speed actuator, which is arranged in a by-pass duct leading to the throttle valve. In the case of internal-combustion engines having an electronically controlled throttle valve, in place of the idle-speed actuator, the throttle valve can also be influenced accordingly. Weighting factors which depend on the operating state of the internal-combustion engine, are used to weight the influencing of the ignition angle, the idle-speed actuator, the throttle valve, and/or the air/fuel ratio.