Method for controlling an internal combustion engine

US6278932A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Temic Telefunken Microelectronik · DE
• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Hermann Baumel · Neumarkt i.d.OPf., DE
• Gunther Breu · Nürnberg, DE
• Gunther Alberter · Wendelstein, DE
• Werner Flierl · Sulzbach-Rosenberg, DE
• Matthias Gramann · Neunkirchen, DE
• Gerhard Hettich · Roßtal, DE
• Werner Wiedemann · Garching bei München, DE
• Wolfgang Thiel · Köngen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2001
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02D2400/18
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for controlling an internal combustion engine with the aid of an engine control unit, having actuators for the electromagnetic valve control, as well as additional actuators, wherein each cylinder head has a separate actuator control unit, which is connected via a data bus to the engine control unit.