Method and device for correcting tolerances in a transmitter wheel

• US 6,250,144 B1
• Filed: 04/01/1999
• Issued: 06/26/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Samuelsen, Dirk, Fehrmann, Rüdiger, Birk, Manfred, Rupp, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US09/269,828
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 731/16, 731/172, 731/173, 340/438, 340/441, 701/101, 701/102, 701/110, 701/111
• US Class Current: 73/114.26
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0097 using means for generating speed signals
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1497 With detection of the mechanical response of the engine
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/021 using purely analogue techniques

Abstract

A method and a device for correcting for tolerances in a transmitter wheel are described. The transmitter wheel has a plurality of approximately equidistant marks that are scanned by a pickup. The pickup supplies a pulse train on the basis of which measured values are formed, with correction values being determined on the basis of a comparison of the individual measured values with a reference value. The measured values are filtered with at least one first and one second frequency-selective filtering.

Claims

1. A method for correcting tolerances in a transmitter wheel having a plurality of approximately equidistant marks, comprising the steps of:

generating a pulse train signal by scanning the marks with a pickup;

generating individual measured values from the pulse train signal;

performing at least one first frequency-selective filtering of the individual measured values and at least one second frequency-selective filtering of the individual measured values;

filtering the individual measured values to select first frequency components, the first frequency components being caused by tolerances independent of an operating state of an internal combustion engine;

filtering the individual measured values to select second frequency components, the second frequency components being caused by tolerances dependent on the operating state of the internal combustion engine; and

determining correction values by comparing the individual measured values with a reference value.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference value is generated from an average of a plurality of the measured values.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of the steps of:

filtering the individual measured values to select frequency components with integral multiples of a frequency of a shaft on which the transmitter wheel is mounted; and

filtering the individual measured values to select frequency components with half-integral multiples of the frequency of the shaft on which the transmitter wheel is mounted.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the correction values are generated in preferred operating states of the internal combustion engine.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the preferred operating states of the internal combustion engine include a thrust operation state of the internal combustion engine.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of determining the correction values further includes the step of generating a basic correction value in the preferred operating states of the internal combustion engine.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the correction values are determined as a function of the basic correction value and a factor, the factor being dependent on at least one operating characteristic of the internal combustion engine.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the factor is predetermined at least as a function of a parameter characterizing a quantity of fuel to be injected.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the tolerances independent of the operating state are mechanical tolerances; and

the tolerances dependent on the operating state are tolerances caused by torsional vibrations.

10. A device for correcting tolerances in a transmitter wheel having a plurality of approximately equidistant marks, comprising:

a pickup scanning the marks and providing a pulse train from which individual measured values are formed;

a correction device for determining correction values as a function of a comparison of the individual measured values with a reference value; and

a filter arrangement, the filter arrangement first frequency-selective filtering and second frequency-selective filtering the individual measured values, the filter arrangement filtering the individual measured values to select first frequency components and second frequency components, the first frequency components being caused by tolerances independent of an operating state of an internal combustion engine, the second frequency components being caused by tolerances dependent on the operating state of the internal combustion engine.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein:

the tolerances independent of the operating state are mechanical tolerances; and

the tolerances dependent on the operating state are tolerances caused by torsional vibrations.