Method for operating a direct-injection internal combustion engine during starting

US6145490A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE
• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Hans-Dieter Heidenfelder · Waiblingen, DE
• Christoph Eisath · Haibach, DE
• Wolf-Eike Holtschmit · Völklingen, DE
• Bernd Baur · Eßlingen, DE
• Christoph Lux · Stuttgart, DE
• Stefan Weber · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 14, 2000
• Expiry date: May 25, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/40
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A changeover is made between a so-called low-pressure starting with a homogeneous mixture and a so-called high-pressure starting with a stratified mixture as a function of an engine coolant temperature. Since, during the high-pressure starting of the internal combustion engine, injection is released only when a pressure in a high-pressure accumulator exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the injected fuel is better prepared. During such high-pressure starting, injection is predetermined by an injection quantity and an angle of an end of injection. Predetermining the angle of the end of injection, in contrast to predetermining an angle of commencement of injection during conventional low-pressure starting, ensures that there is an ignitable mixture present at the sparkplug, specifically irrespective of a duration of injection.