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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Oskar Torno, Schwieberdingen, DE;
Axel Heinstein, Wimsheim, DE;
Carsten Kluth, Stuttgart, DE;
Werner Haeming, Neudenau, DE;
Michael Baeuerle, Ditzingen, DE;
Steffen Franke, Schwieberdingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device for controlling knock in response to the failure of a phase detector are described, which implement the normal, cylinder-selective knock control under the condition, that the dual ignition is not activated. If the dual ignition is activated when the phase detector fails, then the knock control is carried out, using a non-cylinder-selective measure. Such a non-cylinder-selective measure could include safety-ignition retard or knock control, using one knock-detection threshold value for all of the cylinders.