Method for starting a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsGerhard Brueggen, Nikolaus Benninger, Udo Sieber
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for starting a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine (1), especially of a motor vehicle. The position of a piston (2) in a cylinder (3) of the engine (1) is determined and fuel is injected into a combustion chamber (4) of that cylinder (3) whose piston (2) is disposed in a work phase. In order to make possible a start of the internal combustion engine (1) as reliable as possible without an electro-motoric starter, it is suggested that the inlet and/or outlet valves (5) of at least one cylinder (3), whose piston (2) is disposed after top dead center (TDC), is brought into a position corresponding to a work phase in advance of the starting operation.
Claims16
A method for starting a multi-cylinder direct-injecting internal combustion engine including an engine for a motor vehicle without the aid of a starter motor, each cylinder of the engine running sequentially through an induction phase, a compression phase, a work phase and a discharge phase during operation of the engine, the method comprising the steps of:
- in advance of the starting operation,
- bringing at least one of the inlet and outlet valves of each of at least two cylinders, whose pistons are disposed in respective locations after top dead center, into a position corresponding to the work phase;
- injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of said two cylinders and igniting said fuel thereby triggering said starting operation;
- and,
- after an unsuccessful first ignition of fuel injected into at least two cylinders in the work phase, the method is carried out once more with inverted phases of the individual cylinders wherein the inlet and outlet valves of said individual cylinders are driven so that cylinders which were previously in said intake phase are now in said work phase and vice versa and individual cylinders which were previously in said compression phase are now in said discharge phase and vice versa.
A control element including a read-only-memory or flash memory, for a control apparatus of an internal combustion engine including an engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a program stored on said control element which can be run on a computer apparatus including on a microprocessor and is suitable for carrying out a method for starting a multi-cylinder direct-injecting internal combustion engine including an engine for a motor vehicle without the aid of a starter, each cylinder of the engine running sequentially through an induction phase, a compression phase, a work phase and a discharge phase during operation of the engine, the method comprising the steps of:
- in advance of the starting operation,
- bringing at least one of the inlet and outlet valves of each of at least two cylinders, whose pistons are disposed in respective locations after top dead center, into a position corresponding to the work phase;
- injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of said two cylinders and igniting said fuel thereby triggering said starting operation;
- and,
- after an unsuccessful first ignition of fuel injected into at least two cylinders in the work phase, the method is carried out once more with inverted phases of the individual cylinders wherein the inlet and outlet valves of said individual cylinders are driven so that cylinders which were previously in said intake phase are now in said work phase and vice versa and individual cylinders which were previously in said compression phase are now in said discharge phase and vice versa.
A multi-cylinder direct-injecting internal combustion engine including an engine of a motor vehicle, the engine comprising:
- a detecting device for determining the positions of at least two pistons of two cylinders of said engine;
- positioning means for bringing at least one of the inlet and outlet valves of each of at least two cylinders, whose pistons are disposed in respective locations after top dead center, into a position corresponding to the work phase in advance of the starting operation;
- a fuel metering system for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of said two cylinders and means for igniting said fuel thereby triggering said starting operation of said engine without the aid of a starter;
- each cylinder of the engine running sequentially through an induction phase, a compression phase, a work phase and a discharge phase during operation of the engine;
- and,
- a control apparatus including means for carrying out a method for starting said engine including the steps of:
- in advance of the starting operation,
- bringing at least one of the inlet and outlet valves of each of at least two cylinders, whose pistons are disposed in respective locations after top dead center, into a position corresponding to the work phase;
- injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of said two cylinders and igniting said fuel thereby triggering said starting operation;
- and,
- after an unsuccessful first ignition of fuel injected into at least two cylinders in the work phase, the method is carried out once more with inverted phases of the individual cylinders wherein the inlet and outlet valves of said individual cylinders are driven so that cylinders which were previously in said intake phase are now in said work phase and vice versa and individual cylinders which were previously in said compression phase are now in said discharge phase and vice versa.
A control apparatus of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine including an engine of a motor vehicle, the engine including:
- a detecting device for determining the position of a piston in a cylinder of the engine;
- a fuel metering system for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of at least one cylinder, whose piston is disposed in a work phase;
- and, means for igniting an air/fuel mixture disposed in the combustion chamber of said at least one cylinder in order to thereby trigger a starting operation of said engine without the aid of a starter;
- each cylinder of the engine running sequentially through an induction phase, a compression phase, a work phase and a discharge phase during operation of the engine, said control apparatus comprising means for carrying out a method for starting said engine including the steps of:
- in advance of the starting operation,
- bringing at least one of the inlet and outlet valves of each of at least two cylinders, whose pistons are disposed in respective locations after top dead center, into a position corresponding to the work phase;
- injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of said two cylinders and igniting said fuel thereby triggering said starting operation;
- and,
- after an unsuccessful first ignition of fuel injected into at least two cylinders in the work phase, the method is carried out once more with inverted phases of the individual cylinders wherein the inlet and outlet valves of said individual cylinders are driven so that cylinders which were previously in said intake phase are now in said work phase and vice versa and individual cylinders which were previously in said compression phase are now in said discharge phase and vice versa.
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