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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
May. 04, 2005
Binh Kim to, Courbevoie, FR;
Olivier Lejeune, Beynes, FR;
Binh Kim To, Courbevoie, FR;
Olivier Lejeune, Beynes, FR;
Institut Francais du Petrole, Ruell Malmaison Cedex, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and a method for continuous operation of an internal-combustion engine (), comprising at least an actuator connected to a working device of the engine, an electronic circuit board or card () comprising a programmable logic FPGA component, means () for synchronizing the card according to the engine cycle, and a central processing unit (CPU). The invention comprises: generating, through the component, a plurality of actuator control pulses, the pulses being parameterizable in phase and in duration, being independent, linked with a single cylinder and synchronized by an angular reference point in the engine cycle for each cylinder; determining pulse parameters and assigning these parameters to the pulses by means of a computing program included in the CPU of the microcomputer at each physical output; and controlling at least one of the actuators by a logic output signal of the circuit board corresponding to at least one of the control pulses.