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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Yue-yun Wang, Troy, MI (US);
Ibrahim Haskara, Macomb, MI (US);
Chol-bum M Kweon, Rochester, MI (US);
Frederic Anton Matekunas, Troy, MI (US);
Paul Anthony Battiston, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Yue-Yun Wang, Troy, MI (US);
Ibrahim Haskara, Macomb, MI (US);
Chol-Bum M Kweon, Rochester, MI (US);
Frederic Anton Matekunas, Troy, MI (US);
Paul Anthony Battiston, Clinton Township, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for diagnosing combustion within a direct-injection, internal combustion engine including a plurality of combustion chambers and operative lean of stoichiometry includes monitoring combustion in the combustion chambers and estimating mass fraction burn therein. Mass fraction burn of sequential ones of the plurality of combustion chambers are compared and combustion phasing differences between sequential ones of the plurality of combustion chambers based on said mass fraction burn comparisons are identified.