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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2010
Johannes Beer, Regensburg, DE;
Stephan Bolz, Platter, DE;
Johannes Beer, Regensburg, DE;
Stephan Bolz, Platter, DE;
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A method for determining a closing time of a valve having a coil drive, in particular a direct injection valve for an engine of a motor vehicle, has the steps: (a) switching off a current flow through a coil (L_inj) of the coil drive, so that the coil (L_inj) is depowered, (b) capturing a time curve () of a voltage induced in the non-powered coil (L_inj), wherein the induced voltage is generated by decaying eddy currents in a magnetic circuit of the coil drive and by a motion of the armature relative to the coil (L_inj), (c) evaluating the captured time curve () of the voltage induced in the coil (L_inj), and (d) determining the closing time based on the evaluated time curve (). A corresponding device and a computer program for determining the closing time of a valve with a coil drive can be provided accordingly.