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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2002
David James Scholl, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Urs Christen, Aachen, DE;
David James Scholl, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Urs Christen, Aachen, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for detecting the start of combustion in the combustion chamber of an engine with autoignition. In the method, the profile of the cylinder pressure is measured and the signal which is obtained in this way is transformed using wavelet functions. A sudden rise in the absolute value of the wavelet coefficients which are obtained indicates the start of combustion. The simple and at the same time precise detection of the start of combustion which is possible in this way can be used within the framework of a feedback regulation—by changing engine operating parameters such as, for example, the start of injection of the fuel—to regulate the start of combustion in a desired way.