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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2002
Jürgen Sauler, Stuttgart, DE;
Oskar Torno, Schwieberdingen, DE;
Axel Heinstein, Wimsheim, DE;
Carsten Kluth, Stuttgart, DE;
Werner Haeming, Neudenau, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating an internal combustion engine and a corresponding device are described in which a combustion of a fuel in a fuel-air mixture introduced into a cylinder occurs in at least one cylinder. At least one adjusting device is used to influence at least one physical process, which modifies the distribution of the constituents and/or the overall composition of the fuel-air mixture in the at least one cylinder. If knock occurs, a knock control is used to gradually retard an ignition angle in the at least one cylinder from a fundamental ignition angle by an adjustment angle. When the adjustment of the at least one adjusting device exceeds a specifiable first threshold and/or the change in the at least one physical process exceeds a specifiable second threshold, the adjustment angle is rapidly reduced by increments, the more rapid reduction occurring with a larger increment and/or with a higher frequency of increments.