Method for controlling an internal combustion engine and ignition control device for such a method
AssigneeBorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH
InventorTorsten Schremmer
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Abstract
Described is a method for controlling an internal combustion engine, wherein an ignition control device is prompted by control signals of an engine control device to activate an ignition device by means of which an ignition of a fuel-air mixture in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine is affected. It is provided according to this disclosure, that the engine control device communicates a target ignition angle or information about an operating condition of the internal combustion engine to the ignition control device, and the ignition control device sets an operating parameter of the ignition device in dependence on the target ignition angle or the information about the operating condition of the internal combustion engine.
Claims10
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine in which an engine control device communicates control signals to prompt an ignition control device to activate an ignition device, the activation of the ignition device effecting a fuel-air mixture in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
- the engine control device communicating a target ignition angle or information about an operating condition of the internal combustion engine to the ignition control device;
- the ignition control device setting an operating parameter of the ignition device as a function of the target ignition angle or as a function of the information about the operating condition of the internal combustion engine;
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- wherein the operating parameter of the ignition device is a variable non-zero magnitude of a primary voltage of the ignition device which is supplied to the ignition device from a voltage transformer.
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine in which an engine control device communicates control signals to prompt an ignition control device to activate an ignition device, the activation of the ignition device effecting a fuel-air mixture in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
- the engine control device communicating a target ignition angle or information about an operating condition of the internal combustion engine to the ignition control device;
- the ignition control device setting an operating parameter of the ignition device as a function of the target ignition angle or as a function of the information about the operating condition of the internal combustion engine;
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- wherein the engine control device generates an edge of a pulse of the control signals in successive engine cycles at the same crankshaft angle, and the current crankshaft angle is communicated to the ignition control device through this edge.
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine in which an engine control device communicates control signals to prompt an ignition control device to activate an ignition device, the activation of the ignition device effecting a fuel-air mixture in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
- the engine control device communicating a target ignition angle or information about an operating condition of the internal combustion engine to the ignition control device;
- the ignition control device setting an operating parameter of the ignition device as a function of the target ignition angle or as a function of the information about the operating condition of the internal combustion engine;
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- wherein the control signals in an engine cycle are transmitted as a pulse sequence of at least two pulses including a first pulse and a second pulse wherein the first and second pulses each define a leading edge and a trailing edge with the leading edge of the first pulse defining a first edge, the trailing edge of the first pulse defining a second edge, the leading edge of the second pulse defining a third edge and the trailing edge of the second pulse defining a fourth edge;
- the third edge defining for how long the ignition device is to be activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.