Method for operating an internal combustion engine

• US 8,141,540 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Issued: 03/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Wagner, Horst, Kessler, Michael, Wunderlin, Simon, Damitz, Jens, Bossmeyer, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): SOLIS, ERICK R
• Application Number:
  US12/300,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20090320787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,789 Days
• Field of Search: 123/436, 123/673
• US Class Current: 123/436
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/1012 Engine speed gradient
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0002 Controlling intake air
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0057 Specific combustion modes combustion modes per se F02D41/3017
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0085 Balancing of cylinder outputs, e.g. speed, torque or air-fuel ratio
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1498 measuring engine roughness
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3035 a mode being the premixed charge compression-ignition mode
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/401 Controlling injection timing F02D41/402 takes precedence

Abstract

In an internal combustion engine, at least one rotation variable characterizing the rotational movement of a crankshaft is ascertained cylinder-specifically. It is provided that, in an operating state in which differences and/or fluctuations of the rotation variable are basically a function of a combustion position, the instant of a fuel injection is adapted cylinder-specifically in order to reduce the differences and or fluctuations.

Claims

1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine, comprising:

ascertaining at least one rotation variable characterizing a rotational movement of a crankshaft cylinder-specifically; and

adapting, in an operating state in which at least one of differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are a function of a combustion position, at least one of i) an instant of a fuel injection, ii) a fresh-air volume, and iii) an exhaust-gas recirculation rate to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations,

wherein, in an initial operating state in which the at least one of the differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are not a function of the combustion position, an injected fuel quantity is adapted cylinder-specifically to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the operating state includes a non-conventional operating mode, at least one of i) the operating mode having partial homogeneous mixture formation, and ii) the operating mode being a regeneration operating mode for an exhaust-gas treatment device.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein based on the cylinder-specific rotation variable, a cylinder-specific combustion position or a cylinder-specific torque is ascertained as absolute value.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein a torque derived from a cylinder pressure in a guide cylinder, a torque ascertained from a lambda value and an air charge, or a torque ascertained from the rotation variable is used as a reference quantity for the absolute value.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the cylinder-specific combustion position or the cylinder-specific torque is corrected to a setpoint value.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the combustion position is adjusted to at least one of a temporal and a local average value.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein in order to adjust the combustion position, the difference between a cylinder-specific actual rotation variable and an actual rotation variable averaged over the cylinders is supplied directly to a controller.

8. A storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program, when executed by a control device, causing the device to perform the steps of:

ascertaining at least one rotation variable characterizing a rotational movement of a crankshaft cylinder-specifically; and

adapting, in an operating state in which at least one of differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are a function of a combustion position, at least one of i) an instant of a fuel injection, ii) a fresh-air volume, and iii) an exhaust-gas recirculation rate to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations,

wherein, in an initial operating state in which the at least one of the differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are not a function of the combustion position, an injected fuel quantity is adapted cylinder-specifically to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations.

9. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device adapted to perform the steps of:

ascertaining at least one rotation variable characterizing a rotational movement of a crankshaft cylinder-specifically; and

adapting, in an operating state in which at least one of differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are a function of a combustion position, at least one of i) an instant of a fuel injection, ii) a fresh-air volume, and iii) an exhaust-gas recirculation rate to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations,

wherein, in an initial operating state in which the at least one of the differences and fluctuations of the rotation variable are not a function of the combustion position, an injected fuel quantity is adapted cylinder-specifically to reduce the at least one of the differences and fluctuations.